2025-01-27
31 分钟This is the Guardian.
Today.
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A quick warning before we start.
This episode discusses suicide and self harm, but I would really urge you to listen if you can because it's ultimately an extremely uplifting story.
When I think back, sometimes were quite hard.
I had some traumatic experiences early on.
One of my parents was an alcoholic and had serious mental health issues as well.
We all suffered quite badly, but I didn't act out when things happened to me.
I just carried on.
And I don't think anybody noticed really that I was struggling.
This is Claire.
I had quite a lot of friends and I did all right at school.
I did quite well.
But then things just continued to be pretty bad.
I was just turned 10 and I was in my bedroom.
It was a summer, late spring, summer evening.
And I obviously was feeling quite low.
And this male voice just spoke to me out of nowhere and told me to jump out of my window.