India, March 16 -- Trigger Warning: Suicidal Ideation and threat, psychological abuse, unsupportive parents.

"There's enough mayhem everywhere. Don't you dare disturb the peace of your house?" My mother hung off her phone.

Now, the context: I was about to commit suicide. Fed up with the daily drama in the house, and the provoked husband's diatribes and emotional abuse, I had assumed ending my life would be easier and better.

But being a responsible man and husband, he informed my mother. If situations got worse, he might land up in jail. And, everyone knows, how sincere and lovable he is!

Unhealed trauma made sure, there was no hope left in me

My mother had iron-handedly stopped every healthy communication with me a long time back, e...