Episode 178: Anna Akana
Mental Illness Happy Hour
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How Do You Just Die?
"I wish I could go back so bad," she says of her last moments. "It was clearly like some kind of cry for like somebody please stop me or... What was the song, do you remember? It was some Korean song that she liked at the time and that she had on her CD." She would mock hang herself in her closet to see how long she could hold out until passing out. Her desire to not be alive must be so intense to fight through that moment when your lungs are screaming; it's hard to watch.
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