I’ve often wondered what drove me to have those wicked thoughts of wanting to commit suicide. Did I, in fact, have a mental illness?...

I was a very reclusive child and a runaway kid. There was already so much going on inside my head and I couldn’t handle the overload...

I remember one time my brothers and I had to avoid drops of blood splattered on the pavement that followed our path to school...

If you didn’t know, The Troubles refer to a nasty civil dispute that spanned over 30 years between the British and Irish...

I had a good early childhood...However, happiness is easy to be interrupted. All that changed when I started secondary school...

What makes a person unique? One just has to look up at the night sky. Just as each star differs from all the others, each of us...

I grew up in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hawaii, floating back and forth between the three places to see my father who was an influential...

As a young girl, my parents sensed that things weren’t right with me. I would jump back and forth between doing things. I would start...

In 2008, my whole world imploded. Everything I thought was supposed to take place in my life, bar the details, was blown to smithereens...

I’ve always heard people say that nothing good ever happens after midnight. For the longest time I found that to be true of my birth...

I, on the other hand, was stubborn and lacked religious devotion, putting a gulf between me and my parents where I never felt as close...

If I were to give advice to the little girl that never stood up to anyone and felt alone much of her life, I would tell her that it’s...

Everything I had touched in my life had so far become a disappointment, and I wanted to end it all. My life flashed before my eyes as I...

But thoughts of death don’t just go away. They linger like the plague. They interject themselves at every turn and persuade you that life...