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The case for not killing yourself

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Struggles of a Suicide Victim

Sean Penn: "All of my experience has been colored, let's say, by this desire to take my own life" He says he tried to kill himself more than 10 times over the course of his life. In a psychiatric hospital with another woman who had made multiple attempts, she helped him see how good he was and why he needed to live. She told him that if only he could look at himself in that way, he would be better off.

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