Jo Lambert

So I've been an unpaid, full-time unpaid carer for loved ones in a suicidal crisis continuously for the last eight years.

And actually, both my loved ones have survived and are thriving now.

If I survive this, I will do something to change this so that people are not powerless watching a loved one suffer like this.

Will you hold the hope for me?

I feel I've lost my way.

I need you to be strong for me and help me find the strength to stay.

I felt out of my depth, powerless.

completely ill-equipped to help my loved one.

I was so panicked by the grief I might experience if my loved one died.

that it prevented me from giving my loved one what they needed.

As soon as I detached myself from the outcome and made this about the person in the crisis fully, that was when I got the hang of it.

Because then it's not about my fear or what might happen.

It's about what they need right now.

This is the voices of those who regularly return to active suicidality and are surviving it.

because of the compassion of others.

Can you be strong enough?

You can imagine the invalidation of knowing this is going to happen, shouting for help, not being taken seriously.

And that's the absolute kernel of this project, which is the upending of the stigma.

Can you turn stigma on its head and see my staying power instead?

It feels like people are more open to share, to discuss things.