World Suicide Prevention Day 2018! #WSPD2018 (Patreon)

Hello Teacups,

Today, Monday the 10th of September 2018, is World Suicide Prevention Day.

This day is important in so many ways: it spreads awareness, it tells stories of pain, triumph and hope, it highlights just how many of us have felt or feel the way we do, and perhaps most of all it confirms what we all need to know and remember - 'No one else can play your part'.

I am someone, like so many many others, who has felt that the world, my family, my friends, everyone would be so much better off without me. But I promise you, as others have promised me - that could never be true.

You are here. You are important. You are needed.

If you need help, please ask for it. 

I promise, someone will help you.

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If anyone requires immediate support for suicidal thoughts or worries, Samaritans are available 24/7 on freephone 116 123. 

And if you'd like more information on suicide awareness, mental health, helping others and getting involved, yourmentalhealth.ie is a great website with lots of resources:

http://www.yourmentalhealth.ie/get-involved/community-action/world-suicide-prevention-day/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=littlethings&utm_content=10%2F09%2F2018

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As stated on the yourmenthealth.ie website, '“Working Together to Prevent Suicide” is the theme for this year's World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th.'

We all have a part to play, and here is my small one:

There are many things in life that help with the issues we struggle with: exercise, yoga, candles, animal therapy, baking, video games, taking hot baths, getting obsessed with fictional characters, great food, bad movies, good movies, snacks, cups of tea, remembering to feed your cactus, etc...

For me, and I'm sure millions of others, one of my main helps is music. Whether it's bittersweet, happy as a sunflower, thought provoking, ridiculous, music is always able to make you feel, and for me, a price can't be put on that.

So here is a list of songs that always make me feel. This is just here if you ever want to feel grateful, inspired, smug, fabulous, and most of all - HAPPY:

☀️ Tea's List of Happiness ☀️ :

 🌸 I'm Happy You Exist - Angus Maude 

 🌼 Not Today - Twenty One Pilots 

 ☀️ Last of the Real Ones - Fall Out Boy

 💖 Happiness - NEEDTOBREATHE 

 🍋 Lemonade - CocoRosie

  🏞 Itchycoo Park - Small Faces

 💡I Believe (Get Over Yourself) - Nico Vega

 🏃 Run Boy Run - Woodkid

 🌼 Becky - be your own PET

 🕯 A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me" - Fall Out Boy

 💋 Kissed It - Macy Gray

🌸  Let's Call The Whole Thing Off - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong 

👑 Golden Years - David Bowie

🎵 Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede

 🌱 Roots - Alice Merton

 🙏 Good Grief - Bastille

 🐎 Black Horse And The Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall

 💖 Send Me On My Way - Rusted Root

 🌹 Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore

 ☀️ Feel It Still - Portugal 

 ⭐ Tribute - Tenacious D

 💃 Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

 ⚡ Danger! High Voltage - Electric Six

 😬 The Fear - Ben Howard

 👊 Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

 🕰 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

 🌈 Ultralife - Oh Wonder

 🇦🇺 Down Under - Men At Work

 👕 We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart

 👗 Galway Gal - Ed Sheeran (Seriously, you want to join a folk band and run through grassy fields)

🔒 Latch - Kodaline

🌼 Jackie and Wilson - Hozier

💖 Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood

❤️ Tear in My Heart - Twenty One Pilots

🎵 Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett

👔 Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

💅 Woman - Kesha 

💁 Come Baby Come - K7

☮ Alive - Sia

❤  HARD LOVE - NEEDTOBREATHE (feat. Andra Day)

🌺 Wake Me up Before You Go-Go - Wham!

🐾 Dirty Paws - Of Monsters and Men

😄 Feel Good - Gorillaz

🍯 Honey - Mobey

💙 I'll Be Good - Jaymes Young

🤞Prove You Wrong - He is We 

🍬Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra

🎩 Classic - MKTO

🌋 Pompeii - Bastille

💾 Save Yourself - Kaelo

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Please stay safe, Teacups.

All my love,

Tea