Lost my brother when he was 15.

He stole a car, drove to Oregon. His friend buckled her seat-belt as they went off the road, only paralyzed. Bryan died that night.

I was seven just two weeks later. My mom made me leave my room to open presents, though I had barely stopped crying.

The PTSD from that “car accident” caused night terrors, sleepwalking, depression, anxiety, selective eating disorder, among other issues.

When my step-father was in a motorcycle accident three years later, and began molesting me after his traumatic brain injury, my PTSD became two-fold.

It took getting over teenage alcoholism, and meeting my soulmate, before I could function.

A punctuation mark ; indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses.

The semicolon represents a story not yet finished.

Depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicide, addiction, and self harm effect so many people.

The semicolon is a reminder to those suffering; your story is not over.