About Jim Atkisson
My Mission
My Mission
My Mission
I learned life lessons about suicide and I wanted to pass them on in my autobiography
My Hope
My Mission
My Hope
I became an advocate, with the hope I can save lives. I wanted to tell others how a new perspective saved my life
On Friday January 24th 1986 I survived a near fatal suicide attempt. My life was never the same. This was life before my life was changed by suicide
1974
1974, I was a happy kid for the most part.
1983, just a few years before my near fatal suicide attempt. I was starting to struggle. If you read "When an Angel Intervenes" the dense woods in the backgrounds were just some of the obstacles I had to overcome as I fought to save my life after discharging a firearm next to my heart on January 24th, 1986
September 1985. Four months before I made a serious effort to take my life after i discharged a firearm into myself in the woods after I got home from school on a cold winter Friday afternoon. I found I regretted what I had done to myself. I wanted my life back, but it was too late, because once you make such a serious attempt, you may not get to come back from it. I was in the 10th grade, and
Two weeks after I nearly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. I'm standing in the same place i was standing in a previous picture. What strikes me about the picture, is how thin i was under the bulky coat. I lost significant body mass in a short time because of the trauma. I simply can't overstate the nature of the traumatic moment that hit me after I fired that weapon at myself and the e
1987, one year later. I managed to overcome what almost killed me one year before. I was left with scars, but I was alive...