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My best friend disappeared Monday morning after a fight with her husband. Turns out I was the last person to hear from her: She sent me a screengrab of an argument they had via text and told me he'd "laid hands on [her] again." Yesterday evening they found her unconscious in the back seat of her car, apparently due to deliberate overdose. I'm tired of losing people.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2017 14:12 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 03:13 |
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Genocide Tendency posted:Unconscious? As in there is still some hope? Yeah, things seem to be looking up. But I'm probably not going to relax until I hear from her myself.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2017 22:06 |
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Today's my wife's birthday. I'm going to be visiting her gravesite with flowers and a small bottle of mead that I made. She really liked it last time I made it. It's been a rough 20 months, but I'm getting through it. The first six or so were probably the worst.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2017 17:56 |
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My best friend killed herself last night. gently caress.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2017 21:40 |
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Soulex posted:Why you? Like, I'm genuinely curious now. Statistical outlier?
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 06:01 |
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Something has to balance out my enormous penis, I guess.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 14:41 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:Did she complete her annual suicide training? Really?
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 18:50 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:I'm sorry man. Just a little dark humor. Last time someone held back you called them a pussy. It's a lovely situation and a dumb joke. Yeah, no, you're right. It wasn't a good joke. But seriously, though, I think I had eighteen simultaneous reactions to your post and most of them require knowledge I didn't share. My friend was a civilian, never served. Also I misread it at first and took "suicide training" to mean "training on how to commit suicide." Brain no worky so good lately.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 19:06 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:Nah i know and i figured. I was just trying to make a stupid crack to help you smile a bit. If it makes you feel better, it worked once I realized what was going on.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 19:08 |
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Gonna be honest, my sense of humor is broken and I'm swinging wildly between "that's funny" and "gently caress YOU IN THE NECK rear end in a top hat"
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 20:44 |
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Also that joke in the drunk thread was funny as gently caress no matter what my mood so don't feel bad about that one.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2017 23:10 |
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:maybe a dumb joke but you know some commander in some unit somewhere has asked about suicide awareness training before asking anything else when a soldier in their unit killed themselves. That's literally what happened when my wife attempted suicide and her unit tried to get access to resources to help her.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 02:29 |
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Soulex posted:My best bud just went into an inpatient program. He's the last of my friends alive. This poo poo sucks. (Sorry about stepping on your toes McNally. I don't have anyone to tell anymore) That sucks, man. I hope your buddy is okay.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 08:24 |
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NoNostalgia4Grover posted:Finally caught up the thread. Yeah, my life is pretty awful.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 02:07 |
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Drinking doesn't make you feel better. It makes you care less.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 20:58 |
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I met the woman who got my wife’s heart today. I got to hear my wife’s heartbeat through a stethoscope. Then I went to a reunion of my high school class. It was nice seeing old friends, some of whom I’ve known since elementary school. Being around people was probably the thing I needed most today. Now I’m sitting alone in my room thinking about how all of them were there with their boyfriends/girlfriends or husbands/wives. gently caress this is hard.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 04:09 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:McNally, how you doing today buddy? Tired. Drained. Lonely. Also a little worried about the three different papers due this week.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2017 22:23 |
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Well, the tree is up and the house smells like pine. Nothing like subtle reminders of the worst period of your life. Thanks, Christmas.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2017 00:11 |
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Soulex posted:Have you tried switching things up? Instead of traditions you did as a team, are there things you can recreate and do for yourself? I live with my parents and would prefer not have to tell dad "let's not have a tree this year because it bums me out." It's not as bad as it was last year, but Christmas is still not what it used to be.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2017 00:44 |
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:christmas is a month of guilt where the best you’ll make out is maybe socks Oh, thanks, I was struggling with what to get my GIP Secret Santa recipient.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2017 00:51 |
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It's been two years.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2017 18:16 |
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The Valley Stared posted:I had an anxiety attack last night before I was supposed to head up with a friend to go rafting. It's been a little over a year since the collision, and I think was caused the attack was a sense that I had lost control of the situation. I figured we were heading up around 6 in morning, and I got told close to 2100 that we needed to leave at 0400. I think this is normal. I'm glad to hear you're going to talk to someone about it, because that was probably the advice you were going to get in here.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2018 23:10 |
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I think I'm one frustrating email away from driving to the Pentagon and demanding to speak with the Secretary of the Army.
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2018 21:00 |
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I had that problem once. I contacted the national office of the VSO that wasn’t answering and they put me in touch with people that did answer.
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2018 16:50 |
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I've been keeping pressure one the Facebook pages of my congressman and one of my senators because they're conspicuously silent on the issue of survivor benefits when I call and write to them. What I never anticipated, though, was how many people would end up attacking me for daring to suggest that someone who sends generic form letters to a veteran and surviving spouse regarding matters related to survivor benefits might not actually support veterans and military families that much. I am growing increasingly tired of trying to nail this particular piece of jello to the wall, especially with the third anniversary of my wife's death coming up on the 10th. Sarah suggested that there's a weird form of sexism at play here: If I were a grieving widow, I probably wouldn't get the same kind of push-back. Yet somehow a widower's grief is less valid. I'm loving tired. I know in my heart nothing is going to change, but I just can't give up.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 02:34 |
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I didn't think this would have been necessary to put into words, but here goes: No shitposting in the Get Help thread.
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# ¿ May 23, 2019 23:13 |
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That's awful, man. I'm so sorry.
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# ¿ May 25, 2021 05:16 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 03:13 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:Hahahhahahahhahhqhahahhahahhahha I'd much rather you hang out here and get some positive reinforcement, man. Making you take a week off and then ten bucks for the privilege of coming back is not what you need right now, dude.
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# ¿ May 2, 2022 19:41 |