Meghan vs Piers vs suicidal stigma

I don’t know much about Meghan Markle and I’ve tried to know even less about Piers Morgan through the years. And from what I can gather, she talked openly about suicidal thoughts and he said she was lying. Now he doesn’t have a job.

Here’s the thing about suicide. It’s not something you can really talk about, even now. I’ve danced around it a bit and wrote a post earlier about a recent semi-attempt. Is that what it’s called when you are close to doing something and don’t?

There’s a look that comes over some people’s face as you talk about considering suicide, even in the past tense. There’s a judgment involved. If you’re talking about it, you didn’t do it. If you didn’t do it, you’re not all that into it and should stop being dramatic.

We know that there isn’t one factor that leads to a suicide. That would be too simple. I’ve had at least four times in my life where I was reasonably close to that edge, and I still can’t explain what was bothering me with any sort of coherence.

I have no idea what Markle was thinking. But I have definitely seen the look that Morgan had on his face as he shrugged off her revelation. I could care less about whether he kept his job or not, but I do wish there was a better way to talk about these things.

A good place to start is with this book called Hello I Want To Die Please Fix Me by my brilliant friend Anna Mehler-Paperny. It’s so well written that it should discourage anyone else from ever writing a mental health memoir.

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