To Write Love On Her Arms

+It is estimated that 15% or roughly 17 million Americans suffer from depression.
+It affects rich and poor, young and old, black and white.
2/3 are never treated.
+They do not recognize the illness, and see it as a weakness or personality flaw.
+Untreated depression is the most common cause of suicide.
+In Australia, New Zealand and Japan, there are more suicides than murders.
+Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people.
+Depression is treatable.
+Cutting was very much a mystery until 1996 when Princess Diana admitted that she had struggled with it.
+Cutters use physical pain as an attempt to calm or numb the psychological pain. They cut the outside in an attempt release the pain on the inside.
+Cutting is an attempt to stop the hurting, an attempt to be clean.
+Cutters and addicts seek the familiar, even if it's pain. This is completely foreign to most of us.
+Cutters believe pain is their only option, using greater pain as relief from the pain inside.

There is hope. Rescue is possible.


Go to the site, read the story.

"We often ask God to show up. We pray prayers of rescue. Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue, to be His body, to move for things that matter. He is not invisible when we come alive. I might be simple but more and more, I believe God works in love, speaks in love, is revealed in our love...
We are only asked to love, to offer hope to the many hopeless. We don't get to choose all the endings, but we are asked to play the rescuers. We won't solve all mysteries and our hearts will certainly break in such a vulnerable life, but it is the best way. We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we're called home."
-Jamie Tworkowski
www.myspace.com/towriteloveonherarms

Much peace and great grace <3
Caitlyn.