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raakone

Lost a friend to Mental Illness, WHY?

Jun 30, 2016 03:00

WARNING: This entry deals with a heavy subject. Mental health. Also, with a "face" of it, who sadly, was killed by something that couldn't be cured. Also, bare in mind that there are holes in what I know about her particular case. Any corrections, if they are correct, are welcome. Also, yes, I am kind of getting a bit John Oliver on this at times. ( Read more... )

katherine anne peacock, mental illnesses, katherine peacock, szd

Comments 9

rosa_heartlily July 1 2016, 06:02:20 UTC

So sorry for your loss <3

raakone July 1 2016, 13:43:47 UTC

Thank you so much, Rosa. Want to get the word out. Want to do something for her memory, and keep others from joining her!

raakone July 5 2016, 17:08:42 UTC

By the way, this has been updated, just so you know.

anonymous May 23 2017, 19:41:15 UTC

Je suis tombé par hasard sur ton récit (enfin presque, puisque j'habite dans Rosemont). Elle semblait être une belle personne. C'est tellement triste de voir des gens aussi talentueux disparaître. Tu as raison, la maladie mentale est tellement négligée, jugée, mal comprise. Beaucoup de gens seraient encore en vie si nos sociétés donnaient plus d'importance aux problèmes de santé mentale. Bravo pour ton récit, tu lui rends en très bel hommage, à tel point que j'aurais aimé la connaître.

Jérémy.

raakone May 23 2017, 22:13:08 UTC

Merci pour ton réponse. Mon français n'est pas parfait, mais je crois que je compris ton méssage.

anonymous January 25 2018, 10:06:59 UTC

This is so beautiful and such an amazing testament to your friendship and love. Mental illness, in all it's strange and sometimes unrecognizable forms, is a stealthy monster who doesn't discriminate. I will remember Katherine as a beautiful and kind girl - as she was when I last saw her, so many years ago. In her honour, I will try to talk more about this disease.

raakone January 25 2018, 22:45:31 UTC

Thank you so much for your kind reply!

anonymous May 2 2020, 16:16:32 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to put this together about Katherine. I took that wilderness skills course alongside her and we maintained correspondence by mail fairly regularly. Every once and awhile I look her up online in bewilderment and sorrow that someone so special got done so dirty by the world. She was a very good friend to me and helped me make sense of some dark and challenging times, despite going through darker and more challenging times herself. I guess that's why her perspective was so useful to me. We were lucky to know her.

raakone May 2 2020, 16:49:59 UTC

Thank you so much.

I remember she really loved her time "in the woods", as we called it. I remembered how excited she was when she told me about it before. I did this for her just before she left.... http://fav.me/d62qq5l

May I ask what your name is? I am Carlos Sebastian Leschhorn. Are you on Facebook or Discord or something?

Also, I have links to tributes from both her memorial, and the tribute concert....as well as from many of her concerts in the past. She was the OTHER Musician Montreal lost in 2016 (bear in mind I wrote this post before Leonard Cohen's death, but I lost momentum to update this)

Other things....with her blessing, I had come up with a character based on her, would you like some links?

Finally, one of the nicknames I had for her, "Tuafafine", I ended up deciding would be inherited by her sister, because it was too important...because KATH was too important. ("Tuafafine" is Samoan for a guy's sister)