Dear parents, please don’t choose to die…
*** Content warning: Suicidal themes *** Dear dad or mum to a child or children, Firstly, let me...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 10, 2020 | Life, Mental health, Parenting, The Westsider, Writing | 0 |
*** Content warning: Suicidal themes *** Dear dad or mum to a child or children, Firstly, let me...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
27 March this year was the last ‘coming-of-age’ milestone of my father’s suicide. He took his own life twenty-one years ago, in 1998.
Ordinarily I’m overcome with a sense of dread in the weeks before this annual milestone, but this year, I wasn’t.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 14, 2016 | Life | 0 |
Twice in my life I have been delivered – in person – powerful and timely messages from complete strangers. The first was the day of my father’s funeral, and the second was last Wednesday night. On both...
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