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resilient99
resilient99

So I was in a very negative place my last post. I totally took everyone's thoughtfulness the wrong way and I left. I didn't care to look back at what everyone was saying to me and realize that they care.


I have since had a lot of events happen to me in my life this past year. Some great and some bad. But I am doing good. I'm holding it all together and picking up my pieces to try to help myself.


One thing though that I am having a hard time with is my best friend comitted suicide in August and that tore my soul. He was a once in a lifetime gift from god. Then a week later my dear co-worker who I always went to visit and hung out with passed away. Life just got worse for me. I was losing the only people in the world that I could confide in. Nope, it didn't stop there. My childhood friend, who I knew forever tragically got killed in a car accident.


How is one to cope with all this? I did my best but I can't do it no more alone. It's too much for me. So I am starting back up with my couselor and she is helping me deal with the grief of my friends and my grandma.

OlderCPer
OlderCPer
You cope, just like you are doing, you talk to your Counselor, talking to your grandma, you take it a step at a time, you go through the stages of grieving and you don't rush it. Death and accepting the loss of those we love takes time, it takes time to fill that void that sits in us each day....you can't rush it. Each day gets a tiny bit better, then there will days that are harder, The thing is it happens in time and you can't change it. Some people think you can just wad up that pain and stuff it deep down inside....but it finds its way out at some point and then you have to deal with it then. So take a step at a time and let yourself grieve and feel pain for the loss, but you don't have to let it consume you, you still have your life to live around it.

Take care,
Kat
resilient99
resilient99
Thank you so much. I hate a hard time on the day of my grandma's memorial because I was told to let her go and quit crying over her. That is something I can't do. I mean, how do you forget someone that has been there your whole life and had the greatest impact on you. Same as my friends.

I need to let my feelings out and learn to quit bottling them up. I appreciate your words Kat.... I hope you have a good day.
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