“Almost always in human experience, the urge toward suicide signals an edge of a new level of consciousness.  If you can kill the right thing — the old way of adaptation — and not injure yourself, a new energy-filled era will begin.”  ~ Robert A Johnson in “She — Understanding Feminine Psychology”

Call

USA Hotline: 988
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Compassion and Choices: 1-800-247-7421
California Youth Crisis Line: 1-800-843-5200

Text

CrisisTextLine: Text TWT to 741471 or @CrisisTextLine

Tools for Self-Care

How Death, Trauma, and Disasters Effect Mental Health (Tips to Cope)
Everything is Awful and I’m Not OK Questions to Ask Before Giving Up
A Clever Musical Tool to Help You Cope with Trauma and PTSD
Overwhelmed? Dial Back Your Crazy with this 5-Step Plan
The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions Today
Three Powerful Self-Care Modalities

Browse

San Diego County resources, including a crisis line phone number and live chat
Col Bart P Billings, Ret: Feeling the Sound Can Be Dangerous To Your Health – how high-intensity low-frequency sound is dangerous to your health (skip forward to page 24 for Dr Billings’ article)
For neuro-diverse people
For LGBTQI+ people: the Trevor Project

Read

The Ethics of Suicide
The Time Keeper
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
The Alchemist
Ten Things You’re Taught as an Emotionally Neglected Child That Aren’t True
She
He
Transformation
Owning Your Own Shadow
VAD article: “Feeling the Music Can Be Dangerous to Your Health” by Col Bart Billings, USN (Ret), shared here with permission from the author
Sometimes I Think About Suicide, by Stephen Elliott, from The Sun, November 2016

Listen

Tropical Sweets Classical Music Adventure
Rachmaninoff – Etude-tableau Op.39 No.2 in A minor (Bill’s “suicide music”)
Bill Protzmann plays Amazing Grace

Watch

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Studies

Ketamine
MDMA (ecstasy)
Psilocybin

Veterans

The Mendleton Foundation
Veterans Outreach
Veteran peer support for PTS, MST, TBI, and suicide: Courage to Call
Invisible wounds: HeadStrong

Updates

This page is personally curated by Bill Protzmann. Please notify Musimorphic if any of these links break or if there are ones you feel ought to be included.

 

Thank you for visiting.

Please be safe.