Success Is Not Proof We Are Safe

A private message for outwardly successful men and women carrying suicidal thoughts no-else knows about

There is a kind of strain that leaves no mark on the outside. The business grows. The family is provided for. The diary is full.

And yet privately, the mind is somewhere else entirely.

This is a short document for people whose lives still look like they are working, and who have sometimes had thoughts about no longer being here.

Who this is for

Not those who have lost everything. Those who have lost nothing, and are still not at peace.

The founder. The chief executive. The investor. The senior partner. The person everyone else comes to for help. The one nobody would think to worry about.

What it holds

Eight pages.

My own account of a trip that looked like the peak of my professional life, and what was happening inwardly while nobody knew.

Why suicidal thoughts do not always look like what we expect.

What can be carried privately for years without anyone seeing it.

The words for telling one person.

And where to go if the thoughts are close.

There is nothing for sale in it

No offer, no pitch, no next step. Read it, keep it, or send it to someone.

If you need help now. Samaritans, free, day or night: 116 123. If you are in immediate danger, or there is a serious risk to life, call 999 or go to A&E.