Today is Chronic Migraine and Suicide Awareness Day!

Today is the first Chronic Migraine and Suicide Awareness Day!  I hope that everyone is wearing their purple, red and black in recognition of this debilitating disease and how it's unending pain can and does lead to suicide.  I, myself, am a suicide attempt survivor and am really about spreading this information to as many people as possible.  I also want to get people talking.  Suicide is a very taboo and stigmatized subject all across the world.  It's seen as an act of weakness and of giving up when it is the end result of some kind of overwhelming and overbearing pain, whether emotional, physical or both.  So, please show your support to those of us who suffer daily and think of suicide as an option to ending our pain because no one else is trying to help us manage it.  We chronic migraineurs are often overlooked and under treated and this must end or we will continue to lose lives to it.  Chronic migraine is a beast; a very unrelenting one.  Get out there and talk about it.  Family members and friends of migraineurs, please do not diminish their disease or treat them like their hypochondriacs or liars or lazy.  This is REAL.  How would you feel if you were in pain every single day of your life and you had the ones who you love not believing in you or have doctors that treat you like you are overreacting and making up your symptoms?  It would feel awful and lonely, wouldn't it?  So, I implore every single human being out there to stop being self-centered when it comes to Migraine disease and it's many different counterparts.  No one enjoys being in pain and believe me, no one would purposefully want to be a chronic because it is the worst kind of life there is to live.  Support us.  Love us.  Treat us.  Believe us.  Uplift us.  We desperately need it.

WEAR YOUR COLORS!!!