Comments for NAMI CCNS https://www.namiccns.org/ Chicagoland Mental Health Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on Suicide Notes | What Every Person Thinking of Suicide Must Write in Theirs by Zecharia Gilbert https://www.namiccns.org/a-suicide-letter-what-every-person-thinking-of-suicide-must-write/#comment-73 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:12:45 +0000 https://namiccns.org/dev/?p=7205#comment-73 Since writing this article I’ve seen two more friends gone to suicide. I’m sad. I’m angry. I’m sorry for the families. It hurts to see my friends in such pain. I want to tell you about them. Why? Because they are gone but still live in the people they left behind. It’s a different kind of memory that etches only questions and leaves a sad stain behind. It’s not good. It only burns and torments the ones left behind. I want you to know this. I want their names to live to save those reading this, those that are thinking of suicide and those that are at the breaking point.

Julian Torres, you were only 15 years only. I watched you as a kid and introduced you to my children. I dropped you off at school and picked you up. You were so damn smart! Your mother and father are hurting mightily. Your Mother slept in your bed for months after you left, just so she could smell you and feel close to you.

Aric Cumby. You were and always will be my Army brother. That night, on our long road march, you were dehydrated and could barely make it. I carried your ruck sack so you didn’t have to. I had my ruck sack on my back and your in the front. I’d do that 100 times over for you again to save your life. You were my best friend in those moments. Those moments play in my head over and over again. I carried you, you carried me through. We reconnected only 5 months before you ended your life. Your wife and kids are still hurting. The fire department raised flags for you, a Veteran of 27 years. I only wish I could have been there for you to carry your load one more time. One more time, that’s all I could ever wish for. As I’m writing this I can’t hold back the tears.

Please, if you are reading this and are thinking of suicide, stand down, sit down and breathe. Leave a note in the comments, call 988, call me. Call your family, let them know you are hurting and simply need a hug. This too, shall pass. Please remember, you are loved!

]]> Comment on Top 5 Schizophrenia Myths by Frances Szaukellis https://www.namiccns.org/top-5-schizophrenia-myths/#comment-55 Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:09:14 +0000 https://namiccns.org/dev/?p=5194#comment-55 In reply to Elvira.

Can you please email me and elaborate?

]]> Comment on What does Mental Health have to do with Faith? by Zecharia Gilbert https://www.namiccns.org/mental-health-and-faith/#comment-66 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:07:09 +0000 https://namiccns.org/dev/?p=6454#comment-66 In reply to Henry.

noted. Thank you!

]]> Comment on What does Mental Health have to do with Faith? by Henry https://www.namiccns.org/mental-health-and-faith/#comment-65 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:49:08 +0000 https://namiccns.org/dev/?p=6454#comment-65 Both the Powerpoint and the .pdf have been removed from Scribd.

]]> Comment on Insomnia is Ruining My Life—What Can I Do? by Zecharia Gilbert https://www.namiccns.org/insomnia-is-ruining-my-life-what-can-i-do/#comment-97 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:21:23 +0000 https://namiccns.org/dev/?p=13965#comment-97 In reply to Natalie.

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