What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head, you don't know where they could go.
Interpretation
Surviving a suicide attempt leads to a complex mix of emotions, including fear of losing control of one's thoughts.
This quote by Emma Forrest highlights the profound and often overlooked emotional struggle that follows a suicide attempt. While survival is a victory, it opens the door to new fears, particularly the unsettling worry about the state of one's mental health and the potential for returning to despair. The struggle for control over chaotic thoughts becomes a new challenge, revealing the depth of the survivor's journey beyond mere survival.
In practice
In a mental health discussion, one could say, 'As Emma Forrest said, after overcoming darkness, there can be fear of the mind's wandering thoughts.'
Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.
There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that. So, yeah, I'll put it out there, and if everyone says, 'Well, that's shockingly bad – back to wizards with you', then obviously I won't be throwing a party. But I will live. I will live.
Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
It's normal that there be fear, in every man, the important thing is that it be accompanied by courage
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