What does the semicolon that so many people are tattooed with mean?

Project SemiColon aims to raise awareness about the importance of fighting depression.

Thanks to Facebook, every day I see websites with images, messages and links that I like to browse through.. Some of these contents are funny pictures, videos of people doing amazing things or articles from people who want to convey their concerns. This week I read something about the meaning of the semicolon in tattoos. I didn't know anything about this "fashion" and I started reading.

I came across Project SemiColona website of a girl named Amy whose father committed suicide when she was young, and now dedicates her time to shed light on the feelings and thoughts related to this experience, an experience in which many people suffer the tragic consequences and carry them with them throughout their lives.

A project to express feelings

A semicolon is used to separate two independent statements that have 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 he decided to end it all by taking the Pain with him. Amy, while feeling the pain and sorrow of his death, decided to pay tribute to him with this symbol. decided to pay tribute to him with this projectShe focuses all her attention and strength in transmitting her message of recognition to those people, who once decided to end her life and did not do it in the end. To these people he launches a hopeful voice to keep on living, to overcome the struggle of depression and to make it visible, since the taboo on suicide is still very much alive. the taboo on suicide still exists today..

A new beginning

The more an event is hidden, the more difficult it is to detect and prevent it in time, the more its signs are blurred and for 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 colleagues send the message to these survivors "to believe that this is not the end but a new beginningwhich could be translated as "the importance of believing that this is not the end but a new beginning. 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 (National Institute of Statistics) around 3,500 people commit suicide every year.How is it possible that nobody talks about it, neither in the media nor in the streets?

We are afraid to ask, to explain, to shed light on this state of pain that for many is inconceivable. But it exists. Even today even mental disorders are treated as something dark, secret and shameful. The problems associated with suicide are also hidden and obscured by stigma. stigma even though these issues should always be exposed with responsibility, respect and clarity, but not hidden.

A positive message towards recognition and the fight against depression and suicide.

This girl and her team are looking for the same thing: from love and humility they want to shed some light on the shed some light on what was left behind by all those who left, and they want to offer a space for expression.They want to offer a space of expression, knowledge and support to all those who still struggle to get out of that depression.

In this website you will not find psychologists or doctors, it is a place of declaration of intentions. its philosophy through the creation of positive experiences, events and collaborations in relation to this painful fact with in relation to this painful fact with an optimistic and real vision.

They have a blog where they express their experiences with volunteer groups in different neighborhoods, where they offer talks and visibility to the symptoms of depression, to the feeling of loss, to pain, to the thousand and one forms that anxiety takes (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 great emotional support.