My name is AP, and I’m the creator of the Reasons to Stick Around website :)

TW: MENTAL HEALTH

It all began in 2013, when I was 10 years old. I was dealing with mental illness and a therapist told me to make a list of reasons to stay alive. So I bought a notebook and wrote down well over 100 reasons, but have since lost the notebook.

In 2021, I tried resurrecting the project on a larger scale following my father’s suicide. I thought if he had a notebook just like mine with all of his reasons, he could’ve made it.

Later that year, I made a form for others to submit their reasons and a public google doc so people could access it in times of crisis. Somehow, someway, the link broke and the document can no longer be accessed.

Now, as I sit here 11 years later, I have lost another very close person in my life to suicide. So I’m finally putting everything together in one place, on one website, so people have a resource if that time would arise.