International Overdose Awareness Day 2024 is on Saturday, August 31, 2024: Suicidal thoughts but no means of getting help?

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Suicidal thoughts but no means of getting help?

You have two options: One--stop going to your parents for advise, support or encouragement. They are in denial and will [never] change their mind. Two--accept your own sexuality and respect it because at the end of the day you are the only one who has to live as you!

Bide your time until you get older and are able to move out and perhaps begin hormone therapy in preparation for surgery. Keep your love interests--even your other friends away from your parents. Understand that [nothing] you do or say is going to satisfy your parents. They are the failures! You are the success for recognizing who you are and being brave enough to live your true life in as much of an authentic way as is possible at this time!

Plan your ultimate escape. Keep your thoughts, plans, goals, etc. from your parents. Tell them nothing. Say nothing. Begin to practice shutting them out in every area of your life and recognize that every single day you're getting closer to being able to live your life as you envision it. Don't discuss school, hopes, dreams--anything with them. Just be glad you're nearing a time when you'll never have to deal with them again.

Your parents are to be tolerated by you. They are not loving or accepting and they do not deserve for you to be loving or accepting of them. Be polite and civil but don't allow yourself the luxury of thinking that when you tell them you're thinking of suicide it makes one bit of difference to them. It doesn't so please stop wasting your time. Save your breath to live on.

Please contact the International Suicide Hotline Directory here:

Make sure you are alone and out of ear shot when you talk to them or when you talk with your friends. Shut them down and cut them out and enjoy the time between and when you'll be free of them once and for all.

I'm not suggesting you to hate them--not at all. But I am suggesting that you will never have the type of relationship you want with them because they are incapable of accepting you! What that means is you can love them and forgive them and continue to create space between you and them going forward.

You will find other people in your life to love you and support you--it just won't be your parents so you have to accept the inevitable.

BTW: If you should win the Lottery don't even think about telling them (or anyone else) for that matter! Just hunt up a good reliable estate planning attorney, create a blind trust, let the trust claim the funds and keep your mouth shut! If you wind up with a high paying job and your parents come to you for financial assistance put a smile on your face, tell them how much you love them and that you're not going to sign on to help them as you have "other priorities" then hang up.

Once you're out of the house do [not] go back to visit. Ignore them and fill in the blanks in your life with people who love you and accept you and will go to bat for you. Your parents are a lost cause but you're not!

Very proud of you for taking the steps to come here. You've made a great case for being an independent person and all around great friend to people who won't judge you or put you down so that's got to be your new goal. Surround yourself every day with people who are genuine. So much help in the LGBTQ community so get yourself signed up to a phone line, a club, an organization!

You can substitute the ugliness you're dealing with at home for the sunshine you'll get inside the community of like minded people so get yourself hopeful so you can get happy and get ready to live your best life going forward!

Don't let the clothes thing bother you too much. It's just your parents' futile attempt to object to who you are. While you're in their home go along with it knowing full well once you're of age you can dress and behave as you see fit! Play their game and don't internalize their cruelty. Once you disconnect from them they'll probably come begging for your attention. Just don't allow them in your life in the future--not even for a "test drive!"

Best wishes going forward and remember you're a WINNER and they're the ones who lose!

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