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Beyond the Secret

Secret 054: MISSING: My Suicidal Son PART ONE

Beyond the Secret

Ace Fanning

Society & Culture

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Secret 054:  MISSING:  My Suicidal Son PART ONE

When a depressed teenager goes missing, his mother fears the worst and begins the frantic search to find him.  This story is at the heart of what motivated Ace to begin the podcast.  He says, “If you ask me, from here on out, what story has touched me the most, it will always be this one.” Once you hear it, you’ll understand why.

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0:00.0

The following episode contains discussion of suicide.

0:04.0

If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide,

0:08.0

please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1.8255 or visit their website at Suicide

0:19.6

Suicide Lifeline.org.

0:21.8

What's your secret?

0:27.0

You think everything is kind of going okay when in reality is falling apart in their lives.

0:34.0

This is beyond the secret.

0:40.0

This is beyond the secret. I want to start this episode out with one of my favorite quotes from one of the least suspecting places but it is a quote that I have

1:09.4

carried with me since I very first heard it a couple years back.

1:16.4

At the end of season 5 of Orange is the New Black, Crazy Eyes, who's also known as Suzanne, offers some comforting words to her friend.

1:28.9

She says, you think your feelings are real, but they're not.

1:34.0

Trust me.

1:35.0

It's like the sky is blue, right?

1:39.0

But when there are clouds, you think it's gray, but really it's blue.

1:46.8

It hasn't changed. It's just covered with gray clouds passing by.

1:57.6

Now the clouds are your feelings, the sky is how it really is, your clouds will pass by.

2:01.6

I hope that wherever you might be in life right now, you know the sky is blue and that your clouds are

2:19.4

going to pass by. I promise you. Like sometimes it requires you to be patient and a lot of times it requires you to be strong.

2:31.0

But I swear to you.

2:39.0

You are stronger than this storm and you are stronger than every storm that will ever try to

2:46.6

stand in your way. I need every single person listening to this right now to know that you have a purpose in this world.

3:03.0

And trust me, I know.

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