I won’t go into detail as to what brought me to seriously consider suicide lately, save to say a poster in a hospital room helped me to visually gauge my pain:
http://www.carolinashospital.com/_img/patient-info/reference-library/pain_chart.gif
Though meant to gauge physical pain, I used it to guage my emotional pain….and I was right there…between numbers 9 & 10.
(Matter of fact – I envisioned a red zone in between those two numbers and entitled it:Â “The Danger Zone.”)
It scared me. Scared me because, though many times in the past I have contemplated suicide….it was never quite to this serious, profound degree and this scared me. Scared me enough to know that I […]