Please be advised, this video contains sensitive recounts of suicide attempts.
Myra Smith, Deborah Harris and April Jett met for the first time when I brought them together in the Neon District of Norfolk earlier this week, but they share a common bond: each woman has attempted or seriously considered suicide.
“I had said to myself I would rather sleep forever than to deal with whatever I was facing alone another day,” said Myra Smith, a wife, mother and singer who survived three suicide attempts while experiencing depression. “We fight and do for others, but we lack doing for ourselves.”
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“God allowed me to live, when I should have been dead,” said Deborah Harris, a wife and mother who also survived three suicide attempts while navigating undiagnosed mental illness. “It wasn’t until after I was introduced to the specialists, the therapists, the counselors, and the psychiatrists who helped me to heal from within.”