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Title: Suicide Prevention and the Need for Support Beyond Transition
Post by: Butterfly on December 04, 2009, 10:40:36 PM
Suicide Prevention and the Need for Support Beyond Transition
Women Born Transsexual
By Suzan
04 December, 2009


http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/12/04/suicide-prevention-and-the-need-for-support-beyond-transition/ (http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/12/04/suicide-prevention-and-the-need-for-support-beyond-transition/)


I'm sort of shaken this morning by a letter I received from someone who read yesterday's post.

I feel the same sense of powerlessness I felt back in 1987 when I quit taking drugs and told a number of my very self destructive friends not to come to my apartment or even call me when they were high, which basically meant severing my friendship with them.  I couldn't continue to be around users and get clean.

It took years more for me to get sober.  In a few weeks it will be nine years since my last drink.