Maggie Larkin

"The thoughts circled and swam until it was all I could think about: I wished I was dead. These thoughts existed in the background of my mind for years, but for the first time in a while, they were foreground. They were active. And I was afraid that I would listen to them." This talk describes the worst days of my life, when I checked myself in to a mental hospital, and how they turned in to the best days of my life, when I discovered the keys to self-love through self-advocacy.