What does the "semicolon" tattoo mean?
Thanks to Facebook daily I see web pages with images, messages and links that I like to browse. Some of these contents are funny photographs, videos of people doing incredible things or articles by people who want to convey their concerns. This week I read something about the meaning of the semicolon in tattoos. I did not know anything about this "fashion" and I started to read.
Say with Project SemiColon, a portal of a girl named Amywhose father committed suicide when she was young, and now she spends her time giving birth to the feelings and thoughts related to this experience, an experience in which many people suffer the tragic consequences and carry them with them throughout The life of her.
A project to express feelings
A semicolon serves to separate two independent statements that maintain a very close semantic relationship. It is a pause longer than a simple comma, and shorter than a period.
What does this symbol have to do with suicide?
Amy Bleuel's father suffered so much that she decided to end it all by taking the pain with him. Amy, still feeling the pain and sorrow of her death
he decided to pay tribute to him with this project, focusing all her attention and her strength in transmitting her message of recognition to those people, who once decided to end her life and did not finally do so. To these people he sends a hopeful voice to continue living, to overcome the struggle of the depression and to make it visible, since the taboo on suicide still exists today.A new beginning
The more a fact is hidden, the more difficult it is to detect and avoid it in time, the more its signals are blurred and for the professionals and family members, it is very difficult to help that person who feels nothing but suffering, sadness and despair.
That is why Amy and her companions send the message to those survivors "to believe that this is not the end but a new beginning”Which we could translate as the importance of believing that this is not the end but a new beginning.
Suicide, a hidden reality
In Spain, according to data from INE (Statistics National Institute) about 3,500 people commit suicide each year. How is it possible that nobody talks about it, not in the media, not on the streets?
We are afraid to ask, explain, give light to this state of pain that for many is inconceivable. But that exists. Even today even the mental disorders they are treated as something dark, secret and shameful. The problems associated with suicide are also hidden and hidden by the stigma Although these issues must always be exposed with responsibility, respect and clarity, but not hidden.
A positive message towards the recognition and fight against depression and suicide
This girl and her team are looking for the same thing: from love and humility they want shed some light on what all those who left left behind, and they want to offer a space for expression, knowledge and support to all those who are still struggling to get out of that depression.
On this website you will not find psychologists or doctors, it is a place of declaration of intentions, search transmit their philosophy through the creation of positive experiences, events and collaborations in relation to this painful fact with an optimistic and real vision.
They have a blog where they express their experiences with groups of volunteers in different neighborhoods, where they offer talks and visibility to the symptoms of depression, to the feeling of loss, to the pain, to the thousand and one form that the anxiety (autolysis)… They bring knowledge and hope. They are critical of what they see and generous in explaining what they feel, they bring their tools to anyone who may be feeling bad. They offer a great Emotional Support.