To those who've lost a loved one they're not sure how to live without...
To those who've been told, directly or indirectly, that their bodies are unloveable...
To all the kids being bullied in the schools that are supposed to be "good for you"...
...and the kids for whom school is a refuge from the pain at home...
To anyone who's been emotionally, sexually, or physically abused, and those who are being abused even now...
To the gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, queer, trans, genderqueer, intersex, polyamorous, sexually-confused, gender-confused people who've been told they are unacceptable or morally corrupt...
To the black kids in the city who've been told they'll never amount to anything...
...and the black adults who remember when things were much worse...
To the legal, and illegal, immigrants being used as scapegoats for every problem in the United States, and treated as though you were not fully human...
To all those whose ethnicity, religion, skin color or nationality renders them Less Than in somebody's eyes...
To the people whose lives depend on SSI, food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, and all the other programs derisively lumped together as "welfare" and treated as a "problem" by people who can afford BMWs...
To the people who are unemployed, and must live with the shame dumped on unemployed people even when that represents 10% of the adult population...
To the people whose bodies and minds don't work the same way as "everybody else's" (as if everyone else's bodies and minds worked the same way)...
To the girls being told their job is to be a pretty face and nothing else...
To those struggling with addictions and compulsions...
To those keeping secrets they fear would make everyone stop loving them...
To those who've survived natural disasters, fires, terrorist attacks, wars, and other kinds of hell-on-earth...
To those going through the breakup of a family, or the breakup of a relationship...
To those who love someone they can't be with...
To those who don't have any "serious" problems, but just can't seem to find the joy in life...
To those who hurt themselves because it's the only way to hurt a little bit less...
This is for you.
September 5-11, 2010
There is hope.
Hopeline: 1-800-SUICIDE
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