Self | Mental Health

The First Time I Tried To Kill Myself

You never know what other people are thinking.

Karen Brenchley
4 min readOct 8, 2022

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Image from iStock — Photo by Katarzyna Bialasiewicz

It was the bike that really got to me.

My parents were divorced, and my father had remarried. I now had a stepmother and two stepsisters. My brother was a year older than me, and the girls were two and four years younger. But I was…

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Karen Brenchley

Product manager for machine learning and data science, aikido nidan, published fiction writer, MS survivor