Real Life
ometimes, in your life, things happen that you can’t really handle
on your own. But what do you do
when you can’t talk about those
problems with others?
Even though when people around you seem
like they want to help you, you feel like they
can’t, because they don’t know what they’re talking about.
Sophie tried to face those problems on her
own, and this is her story.
SOPHIE’S STORY
“It’s quite difficult for me to talk about myself,
because I’ve always kind of felt like I don’t
deserve to be talked about, as if there’s
nothing relevant about myself that others
should listen to. It is still hard, but since I survived my attempt to put an end to my own
life, I now feel like I have the duty to speak
up, to stop feeling guilty and ashamed, to
spread my story as much as possible, so that
other people won’t make the same mistake.
I think there is no soft way to say this: in May
2013 I tried to commit suicide. I know lots
of teenage girls or boys are always thinking
about killing themselves, because their life
gets so hard that the thought of them being
dead is almost a relief, an escape.
For me it was nothing like that, because I
had never thought about committing suicide before until that day. Thinking back, I
daresay that when I entered the bathroom
I didn’t even know what I was going to do. I
was just having a really bad day, but when