Understanding that you are not alone and that others are experiencing the same level of anxiety, distress, suicidal thoughts or bereavement is vitally important. Feeing that no one could possibly understand what you’re going through, can lead to even deeper feelings of anxiety and depression and possibly worse.
Welcome to The Jordan Legacy library of hope. Here we share stories relating to: anxiety, depression, suicide and those bereaved by suicide, including; parents, children, siblings, grandparents, partners, friends and extended family and co-workers. Mental health issues and suicide do not just impact the individual concerned – the ripple effect can be devastating.
These stories will explore the topic of mental health and suicide from a position of positivity and no matter how dark today might seem, you must know that there is always hope. For urgent assistance visit our Resources page
In 2018, a popular musician, known as Avicii, killed himself. At that time I too was suicidal. I was so envious. He’d achieved that sweet release that I had both craved, and fought against daily. I wanted to not exist so badly, and yet Avicii’s death actually opened the door to my staying alive. I chose to think that I had…
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Suicide. A big, loud, noisy and inexorable elephant in the room. The biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK – a trend seen across all counties – and over 800,000 global suicides every year. It is also on the rise across women and accounts for approaching 7,000 deaths in the UK annually. It is also…
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“My experience of suicide is that it is the equivalent of a bomb going off in your living room while you’re sitting watching telly. Afterwards you’re astonished you’re alive, but everything has changed and you have a million shards of glass embedded in your soul. Some of them are so big they fall out straight away leaving gaping wounds. But…
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Since Jordan’s death, his girlfriend Charlotte has continually taken our breath away with her heartfelt and insighful blog posts. She writes regularly about trying to come to terms with his loss and the challenge of how to rebuild her life – a life that will never be the same again. This latest offering by Charlotte is another stunning piece of…
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Five years ago, my brother committed suicide. While every February 22nd has been hard since he passed away, five years seemed like a benchmark, a time to re-evaluate what is and was. I lost a bit of my identity after it happened. Even to this day the generic questions of: “So, do you have any siblings?” or “Tell me about…
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The experience of suicide loss, the ‘must do something’ syndrome, then actually doing something Well that was surreal – I’ve just delivered an online LinkedIn training session for the Senior Management Team at a global company. Everything about this training session echoed the old me – I was prepared and delivered the training with my usual direct and enthusiastic style,…
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4:22 pm, Wednesday December 4th 2019, I receive a call to my mobile, a call that will change my life forever. The call is from Charlotte, the girlfriend of my son Jordan. Me: “Hi Charlotte?” Charlotte: “Hi Steve, I’m so sorry, I’m so, so sorry, it’s Jordan… This was the article Jordan’s father published on LinkedIn, just 3 weeks after Jordan’s suicide….
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Almost daily, I’m having conversations with people who have lost their jobs due to the lockdown caused by Coronavirus or with people who know someone who has been furloughed or laid off. As we watch the daily news headlines and even allowing for some level of sensationalism and repetition by the news channels, as they hourly loop the same stories,…
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If you are reading this blog there is a good chance you are concerned about your own mental health or that of a loved one. Perhaps you have already sought help from doctors, therapists, friends, family and even Facebook. By this point you may well have had a diagnosis and be wondering what the label you have been given might…
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“Since losing the love of my life to suicide four months ago, I have woken up every day with thoughts of what I did wrong, what I could have done differently, how I could have saved him. These thoughts aren’t only there when I wake up; they follow me through the day like a headache you just can’t shake. “This…
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‘Seven years ago, my 14-year-old son, Kadian, was killed in a road accident. This is the advice I’d give myself back then. The first thing I would say to my seven-year-younger-self is this: I am so sorry for your loss. I am so, so sorry for your loss. There are some people who will struggle to say this. Who will…
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