CONTENT NOTE: I talk about suicide and depression in this episode. Please don't listen to this if you think it might be at all triggering. Also, I should stress that this is a very personal account. You may find my ambivalence troubling and unhelpful.

Links:

The Samaritans online

Émile Durkheim's Suicide on Wikipedia (last accessed on 18th October, 2015)

A Ted Talk on Depression by Andrew Solomon (October 2013)

Another excellent resource for anybody trying to understand or articulate the experience of depression is one of the posts Hyperbole And A Half creator Ali Brosh wrote and drew about it: Hyperbole And A Half, depression Part 2

Excellent article on the experience of black women accessing mental health services in the UK: The Language Of Distress