There is no medicine like hope. No incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as the expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orville Swift
Those of us who have suicidal thoughts are wanting a way to end what seems like unbearable pain. But pain alone does not necessarily lead to the decision to end one’s life. When pain is coupled with the belief that the pain will never end, we lose hope and feel that life is no longer worth living. It is this loss of hope, even more than the pain itself, that leads to the desire to escape life.
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