Stronger Together

The 988 su***de crisis helpline provides a toll-free texting and calling service available 24/7 to Canadians

The hotline is available to anyone who is thinking about su***de or who is concerned about someone they know who may be contemplating su***de.

Anyone who reaches out to 988 will be assessed for su***de risk, and people can call or text multiple times, depending on the support they need.

Offering support that is:
• bilingual
• trauma informed
• culturally appropriate
• available to anyone in Canada

More info: 988.ca

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Your mind never stops. It overthinks everything. Behind the polished façade you're fighting a constant churn of anxiety. You fill your life with activities that you don’t enjoy in order to calm your racing thoughts.
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You feel overwhelmed by the sensations from within your own mind. You feel like you are drowning.
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Your life is over-scheduled, and you are constantly behind your to-do list. There are too many directions pulling you at once. You feel like juggling with too many balls and wonder when all will come crashing down. You are keeping it together in order not to let others down. The truth is, you are letting yourself down.
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You are driven by the nervous energy, fear of failure, and fear of disappointing others. The busier you are, the more anxiety and stress are invading your life. Stuck in guilt and anxiety, you are unsure what you really like anymore.
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You have great difficulty trusting people. You find it even more difficult to experience and trust your own feelings. You've also become adept at presenting a fake persona to the world because you never show your true feelings to anyone. You find it challenging to create an authentic life of your own.
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It’s almost impossible to stop the internal chatter, and falling asleep is a challenge. Enjoying the moment is hard as you are always focused on the future and what might go wrong. Future is scary as you tend to dwell on the negative.
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You are over-stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted. You have enough.

These are normal and valid feelings that many of us go through in our daily lives. We all experience these thoughts and emotions and tend to hide them away. One thing to try to remember when these overwhelming emotions come is that rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

A motto I find myself relating to quite often recently. Life goes on even with all the tides and tribulations life throws, the fear, the confusions, the anxious days, and dark nights. Life goes on. It always has. It always will.

We often think specific moments (bad ones) are the be all, end all. However, it isn't. On a larger scale, say 5 years later or even a year later, that one moment you thought was the end was very much a small increment of a bigger picture that it is almost insignificant.

So, next time your mind is busy ruminating, a bad day gets to you, or you feel hopeless, remember, life goes on.