I Was Almost a Statistic

“The leading cause of death in Australia among people aged 15-44 is suicide.”

I didn’t flinch when the lecturer gave that statistic. Twenty-one-year-old me knew it firsthand because I had found myself gripping the seams of my life. 

My 21st year hadn’t gone like I’d hoped it would. It broke me. Earlier that year, my mom went in for a life-...

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