{"id":896,"date":"2016-10-10T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=896"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T16:34:17","slug":"its-worldmentalhealthday-so-i-want-to-share-something-my-doctor-told-me-15-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/10\/its-worldmentalhealthday-so-i-want-to-share-something-my-doctor-told-me-15-months-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s #WorldMentalHealthDay, so I want to share something my doctor told me ~15 months ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She told me:\u00a0<em><strong><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;If you kill yourself it will irrevocably harm your children. They will not recover.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was the Exact Right Thing to say in that moment. \u00a0And she wouldn&#8217;t let me leave until I&#8217;d made an appointment with a psychologist.<\/p>\n<p>And here I am today, on meds, not dead, and fairly glad not to be dead.<\/p>\n<p>This comic very much was me right then; if it&#8217;s you, then please go talk to\u00a0any doctor. \u00a0They will point you in the right direction. \u00a0That&#8217;s why they became doctors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/static.thenib.com\/usq\/f94594e3-5d91-4685-9002-1e4890478c06\/i-want-to-live-6a40fbc76ef4-1-a33bf8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"6645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(thx @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iron_Spike\/status\/785596585522503680\">iron_spike<\/a> for the comic by @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErikaMoen\/status\/785590560782299136\">erikamoen<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She told me:\u00a0&#8220;If you kill yourself it will irrevocably harm your children. They will not recover.&#8221; This was the Exact Right Thing to say in that moment. \u00a0And she wouldn&#8217;t let me leave until I&#8217;d made an appointment with a psychologist. And here I am today, on meds, not dead, and fairly glad not to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/10\/its-worldmentalhealthday-so-i-want-to-share-something-my-doctor-told-me-15-months-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s #WorldMentalHealthDay, so I want to share something my doctor told me ~15 months ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[74],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}