Everything to Live for -When “happy” People Commit Suicide

Karen Wesley Writes
7 min readFeb 9, 2022

Suicide is not new, but damn! It feels like so many of us are suffering in silence right now. I know that people lose the battle with mental health every.single.day. But why does it feel like suicide is so much more pervasive right now?

January 22, 2022, Academy Award winner Regina King’s son, Ian Alexander Jr., took his own life. He had just turned twenty-six two days before his death. He was a talented musician. He had deep love in his life, access, opportunities. What the hell happened?

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Karen Wesley Writes

No sugar-coating Writer, Creator, Mental health Advocate “Confessions of an Aspergers Mom,” Blogger, Lover of humans https://linktr.ee/KarenWesleyWrites