Mysterious Good Samaritan leaves handwritten self-murder impediment messages on Lions Gate Bridge

Dozens of handwritten records have seemed on a railings of a Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, charity difference of encouragement, quotes and cinema dictated to assistance forestall suicides.

Their creator is a puzzling Good Samaritan who has not sealed a records or taken credit.

“It’s really, really, impossibly touching that someone has motionless to make this effort,” pronounced Liz Robbins, a trouble services co-director of operations during a B.C. Crisis Centre.

Liz Robbins station on a Lions Gate Bridge where a records have been left. (Jason D’Souza/CBC)

She pronounced a predicament centre receives during slightest one call a month from someone in trouble on a overpass and several some-more from people observant they are meditative about going to a bridge.

I know that right now we might feel like no one cares. we guarantee we someone does — me – One of a records on a Lions Gate Bridge

Robbins pronounced people considering self-murder oftentimes feel unequivocally alone and divided from community, even when surrounded by other people, and messages of support like these can have an impact.

“I can’t assistance though consider it would hold that chairman and make them consider twice … to travel off a overpass and demeanour to get some help,” she told CBC’s Jason D’Souza.

The messages about ‘having stood in your shoes’ gives a clarity that a author has initial palm knowledge and offers wish that things can improve, says Liz Robbins. (Jason D’Souza/CBC)

Signs of hope

She says a messages in some of a records — things like ‘If we are ever wondering if someone has been in your shoes, we have been in your shoes” — offer a pointer of hope.

“There is a clarity that [the creator] has in fact had thoughts of self-murder … and something has shifted for them, and they wish to pierce that clarity of wish to someone else,” Robbins said.

“To have somebody write a note like this lets [the reader] know that tomorrow can be another day and that things unequivocally do change.”

The handwritten records have been laminated and zip-tied to a railings on a bridge. (Jason D’Souza/CBC)

She doesn’t know who is behind a records though says a summary is aligned with what a predicament centre strives for.

“We unequivocally try to assistance emanate that clarity of caring and connection,” she said.

“There are ways to pierce divided from that crisis.”

If we or someone we know is experiencing suicidal thoughts or depression, we can find 24-hour assistance during 310-6789 and 1-800-SUICIDE.

With files from Jason D’Souza and The Early Edition

Where to get help

Canada Suicide Prevention Service

Toll free: 1-833-456-4566

Text: 45645

Chat: crisisservicescanada.ca

Association québécoise de prévention du suicide (AQPS) (French): 1-866-APPELLE

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 (Phone), Live Chat counselling at www.kidshelpphone.ca

Find a 24-hour predicament centre

If you’re disturbed someone we know might be during risk of suicide, we should speak to them, says the Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention. Here are some warning signs: 

Suicidal thoughts.
Substance abuse.
Purposelessness.
Anxiety.
Feeling trapped.
Hopelessness and helplessness.
Withdrawal.
Anger.
Recklessness.
Mood changes.

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