Feeling Suicidal

If you've been thinking about dying, or wishing you could just disappear, you may have been carrying this weight alone for a long time. That pain is real, and you don't have to push it away or explain it to anyone here. Zen sees the mind a bit like the sky: even the heaviest clouds are slowly moving, though it rarely feels that way from inside the storm. What you feel right now may not stay exactly like this forever. You don't have to figure out your whole life today. Just this breath in, and this breath out, can be enough for this moment. And you don't have to hold this by yourself. Reaching out to someone you trust, or to a crisis line, is okay, even if all you can say is "I'm not okay." This page gathers questions from people who have felt the same way, along with the responses HOTOKE AI has offered them.