{"id":9156,"date":"2025-09-09T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9156\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:02:08","slug":"fighting-stigma-about-suicide-a-child-psychiatrist-said-i-was-an-attention-seeking-brat-when-i-harmed-myself-i-felt-like-id-been-written-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9156\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting stigma about suicide \u2013 \u2018A child psychiatrist said I was an \u201cattention-seeking brat\u201d when I harmed myself, I felt like I\u2019d been written off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAhead of World Suicide Prevention Day on Wednesday, September 10, Galway resident Lao\u010b\u00edn Brennan speaks about how finding the courage to ask for the help that changed his life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lao\u010b\u00edn Brennan tried to end his life for the first time at 16, but has now found fresh meaning. Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/112e8aa1-7a49-42b2-9c2c-917cf836c86f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lao\u010b\u00edn Brennan tried to end his life for the first time at 16, but has now found fresh meaning. Photo: Ray Ryan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I lost hope when I was just 14. For a long time back then, everything about my life felt very bleak. And when I would think about my future, I could only think about what people would say at my funeral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I had gone through a lot of change in the transition between primary to secondary school, growing up in Donabate, Dublin. I lost my grandmother, I stopped believing in Santa Claus and I realised I was queer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on Wednesday, September 10, Galway resident Lao\u010b\u00edn Brennan speaks about how finding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9604,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-9156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-azmia-riaz","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}