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# darkness into light series

All time
'I look at my kids and I think there is so much I would have missed had I gone through with it'
Christy Galligan
'He told us his head was melted. The help didn't come quick enough'
Aiveen Cully-Dunne
'I never thought I'd end up at a funeral at 18 watching everyone in my school break down'
Rachel O'Neill
'It wasn't about anything that happened in my life, it was about the black hole'
Rebecca McInerney
'I'm getting better about ignoring the black dog, I've locked him outside and I haven't fed him in years'
Stephen Considine
'I was going to end my life or I was going to get better. That was the choice I had'
'The hallucinations were 100% real to me. But people were telling me there was nothing there'
Brian Scallan
'In my head, I didn't deserve to be helped. I was broken and couldn't be fixed'
Hannah Tyrrell
'Paul wanted to talk. But there was nobody to talk to'
Patricia Turner