What keeps you going when you are feeling at your absolute worst?
In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50. All of the things we are warned about: speeding, heart disease, violence, cancer, and so on - and yet it is suicide that is the biggest threat to young men.
And yet nobody talks about it.
Suicide and suicidal thoughts plague a great amount of men throughout the western world, but still, nobody talks about it. Suicide remains taboo, something that shall not be mentioned, and in doing so we allow this modern phenomenon to continue.
Personally, I've battled suicidal thoughts since I was in my early twenties. Even today I can not rule out suicide as my choice of death within the next decade. There are many things that encourage me to do it: relative poverty, no wife, ageing and hair loss, living in a world that is increasingly cruel to one another, and so on.
But it isn't even these things that specifically make me want to do it - sometimes there is a general urge not to be alive that goes beyond depression and sadness. Just a strange yearning to be free from life.
So it makes me want to ask you: What keeps you going? What makes you not kill yourself?
(Note: please lets not be childish in this one by encouraging people to kill themselves).
