從自殺的邊緣回來，他想要拯救別人

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2019年10月17日

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Back from the brink of suicide, he wants to save others
從自殺的邊緣回來，他想要拯救別人

Their minds can drift to that dark place, but they hide it well.
他們的思想可以飄向那個黑暗的地方，但他們隱藏得很好。
Walking among us, they laugh when really they want to cry. They sometimes feel as if they have nothing to live for and struggle in silence. They contemplate the unimaginable: How to end it all. Some put extreme thought into it, going so far as to write goodbye letters.
走在我們中間，他們笑的時候，他們真的想哭。他們有時覺得自己沒有什么值得追求的，只是默默地掙扎著。他們思考著難以想象的事情:如何結束這一切。有些人想得很極端，甚至寫了告別信。
They come from all walks of life. Some are in big cities, others in small towns. Some hail from wealth, others poverty. All came to a lonely place where they considered taking their own lives.
他們來自各行各業(yè)。有些在大城市，有些在小城鎮(zhèn)。有些人富裕，有些人貧窮。他們都來到了一個孤獨的地方，在那里他們考慮結束自己的生命。
llen Bachman, a 46-year-old antitrust lawyer in the nation's capital, considers himself a survivor. More than a dozen years ago, he tried to kill himself. He was going through a divorce, his father had a heart attack, and he felt alone while traveling in New York City for his high-pressure job.
46歲的萊恩·巴赫曼是美國首都的一名反壟斷律師，他認為自己是一名幸存者。十幾年前，他曾試圖自殺。他正在經(jīng)歷離婚，他的父親心臟病發(fā)作，因為工作壓力很大進行紐約之旅時他感到孤獨。

A family member found him collapsed in his hotel room after his near-suicide.
一名家庭成員在他差點自殺后發(fā)現(xiàn)他倒在酒店房間里。
"When you go through what I went through, it's not just one time," Bachman said. "Once you kick open that door, it's like someone's got a foot in it, and it never completely closes. So when you feel bad, your mind goes to, 'Oh, you can get out of this by killing yourself.' "
巴赫曼說:“當你經(jīng)歷我所經(jīng)歷的一切時，它不止一次。“一旦你踢開了那扇門，它就像被人踩了一腳一樣，永遠不會完全關閉。所以當你感覺痛苦時，你的大腦就會想，‘哦，你可以通過自殺來擺脫這一切。’”
He's lending his voice now to help others.
他現(xiàn)在在用自己的聲音幫助別人。
His life became interesting only in his 40s, he said, and he finds it "just shocking and disturbing" that he could have missed out on all that life has to offer.
他說，他的生活直到40多歲才變得有趣，他發(fā)現(xiàn)自己可能錯過了生活所能提供的一切，這“令人震驚和不安”。
"All the best times of my life came after me thinking I wanted to kill myself," he said.
“我生命中所有最美好的時光都是在我想自殺之后到來的，”他說。
Like so many who spoke to CNN for this story, he struggled to grapple with the suicide deaths of celebrities Kate Spadeand Anthony Bourdainlast week. For him, it was more personal.
就像許多接受CNN采訪的人一樣，上周名人凱特·斯佩德和安東尼·波登自殺身亡，他也在努力應對。對他來說，這更是一個私人問題。

Bachman read a copy of Bourdain's bestseller "Kitchen Confidential," which recounts more than two decades of Bourdain's life, working in restaurants and indulging vices, from cocaine to heroin to booze.
巴赫曼讀了一本波登的暢銷書《廚房機密》，這本書講述了波登20多年的生活，他在餐館工作，沉溺于各種惡習，從可卡因、海洛因到酗酒。
The book was an epiphany for Bachman. He said his life was saved because of Bourdain's willingness to share his own struggles. The chef, author and host of CNN's "Parts Unknown" helped Bachman "to put my own problems in context and realize there was so much in my life yet to come," he said.
這本書對巴赫曼來說是一種頓悟。他說他的生命因為波登愿意分享他自己掙扎的故事而被拯救了。作為CNN“未知的部分”節(jié)目的廚師、作者和主持人幫助巴赫曼“把自己的問題放在故事背景中，意識到生活中還有很多事情要做，”他說。
That is a message others who've been on the brink of suicide shared with CNN: to let people know that their lives are worth saving.
這是其他處于自殺邊緣的人與CNN分享的信息:讓人們知道他們的生命是值得拯救的。
Bachman is one of six survivors of depression who spoke to CNN to offer hope and guidance to a nation reckoning with the realities of suicide. One said this moment should act as an awakening on suicide prevention in America.
巴赫曼是六名抑郁癥幸存者之一，他在接受CNN采訪時向這個正視自殺現(xiàn)實的國家提供了希望和指導。有人說，這一刻應該成為美國預防自殺的一個覺醒時刻。

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