everybody *please* just chill

Aug 05, 2015 02:45

Spent the weekend agonizing over a friend who I knew damn well was suicidal (he admitted as much) but he's in California so it's not as though I could hold his hand through it. Then he makes a very odd facebook post and disappears. I made sure he had my cell number and slept with my phone two inches from my head. Turns out he's living in his bus ( Read more... )

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rhiannon76 August 6 2015, 17:36:45 UTC
I hope you get to decompress from worrying about your friend this week, and I'm glad things are going better for him.

I have so much respect for people who go into counseling, but I could never do it. It seems like it would require a really high degree of compartmentalization to deal with so much pain all the time and not let it affect one's own life.

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instantkarmma August 10 2015, 01:05:45 UTC
I did my best not to flip out on him when he got back in touch & we've been chatting throughout the week. I feel like he's over the hump and the future is looking a bit clearer. I also used our bonding over Italian sports cars (of all things, right?) to bring my dad into the conversation and have dad give him some legal advice.

It does, and if I go back to work I need to work on leaving work at work. That's always been a struggle for me. As much as I feel like I could be effective at suicide prevention (and if you know someone, don't hesitate to send them my way) I think it would be too hard on me personally in the long run. The one thing I felt I really excelled at was grief support and I think that's because you're not trying to "fix" anything, you're really teaching someone how to live with the new normal.

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