What Simchat Torah Taught Me This Year as a Suicide Attempt Survivor

By Jourdan Stein October 17, 2017

Grammar fact: A semicolon comes at the end of a sentence that could have ended with a period, with finality – but didn’t. Many suicide attempt survivors, including myself, have semicolons tattooed on our bodies to represent that our stories aren’t over yet. Our lives could have ended when we attempted suicide – but didn’t….

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God Won’t Give Me My Anorexia Back

By Jourdan Stein March 7, 2017

I lie in bed one night praying to God to end my pain. I ask him, “Please either let me die or take this eating disorder away from me.” I was in recovery from my anorexia for about a year and a half. But I unfortunately relapsed and found myself back in treatment. Six months…

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