Feeling as if it was all over for him, Antoine Craigwell said he was seconds away from throwing himself onto a train’s track when he had some flashbacks about his mother. He pulled back and life has never been the same since. Not only has he been helping others with their mental health struggles, but he has been specific in targeting gay black men in the US.
“In 1999, after a series of things happened in my life, including my sister dying; including experiencing domestic violence; including losing my job and feeling a sense of not belonging, I attempted to kill myself. I stood at the edge of a subway platform in New York City and was going to jump in front of a train. But then I remembered my mother and I stepped back from the edge of the platform,” Craigwell said candidly in an interview with this newspaper.