"I really enjoyed being a single parent. You'll share custody. It won't be on you 24/7."

You can do it. I promise you. I feel your pain for a few reasons. I'm 35 and have been clinically depressed for 22, suicidal for many if not most of those years, and I self-injured for 20. I stopped at age 28 when I ended up hospitalized for self-inflicted injuries. I wasn't attempting suicide, but it certainly…

I lost my mom to suicide when I was 18 . To say it was hard would be an understatement and it blew up what was left of our family pretty well for a while. My younger brothers had their childhood pretty well truncated by that day, Valentine's Day, 1977.

Please consider splitting up and co-parenting. I know of several couples that actually got along much better once they decided to focus solely on parenting and less on maintaining a facade of a relationship. Your kid needs you in as healthy of a form as you can be, if that means as a single Dad, so be it. I hope you…

I'm sorry you're going through this, and I'm sorry that you're going through it seemingly alone.

I wish I could help or offer advice, but I thought that if I wrote something like this, I would (secretly) hope that someone took notice and said something. I have been suffering with bouts of depression for a while now…

I recommend a practice of detaching from your fears. Ask for them to be removed. Just ask the universe. Out loud. And make tiny steps toward the change you want to see.

This is good advice, thank you for posting, since the holidays are hard for those left behind.

One thing I remember hearing is 'when I'm gone, it'll be like I removed my hand from a bucket of water; the space will never be empty'. Sure, but what fills the space where your hand was is just water; not your hand.

And that's why I still miss you. All of you.

Well, this is an interesting and timely article. I am using a burner account right now because I don't want to use my real display name. The name "11-07-14" is deliberate because it is the day that I had decided months ago to commit suicide myself.

There is no coping- you're f*cked.

There is no real recovery as a survivor, the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be. The most you can hope for is to be self-aware enough not to screw over your loved ones by passing your brokenness on to them.

Thursday will be the 10th anniversary of my brother's suicide. I ID'd him (gunshot) on my birthday (the day after). I've had numerous insights over the years but offer the following:

I mean, you're own personal Brad Pitt can't be that bad, right?

I like this better than the advice here. I'd feel like a wuss repeating something "I am confident and passionate. I'm consistently excellent every day as a leader, executive and mother" for 5 seconds, lol.

First, take a deep breath .... deeper than that....well done

Not necessarily. Some people are more solitary than others. I know that with me, when I lived alone...I could go weeks without really seeing anyone outside of work. If I didn't show up to work, my co-workers do not know where I live. Family, I'm not very close to and friends are all out of town with the exception of a…

Mine too.

My cats have saved my life.