Over it

[Eastendboy]

My son passed away in my arms. I got divorced. Diagnosed with manic depression. For me life sucks badly. I am finding it hard to cope. Finding it hard to survive. I feel sad and want to sleep forever. 

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[Neil_1]

Dear Eastendboy  

Please accept my deepest sympathies for the loss of your son.  The feelings that you are experiencing are totally natural and expected – grief is such a severe emotion to deal with and there is no right or wrong way to work through it.  

What is needed is external professional support – from initially a GP and then with what you’ve had happen, I feel very much like appointments with a psychologist or psychiatrist would be recommended also.  

At present, all life for you would be a process of just surviving – and I feel very pleased that you’ve come here to seek out support and assistance.  There is a fantastic community here of people who will throw out support and care for you – yes it’s all via the interweb, but behind the keyboards, we are all real people – and we are all fellow sufferers.  

Eastendboy, I hope that my post has helped you, even in some small way – and if you feel able to, it would be really great to hear back from you.  I know this would be terribly difficult for you to talk about, but if you do feel able to unload a little, that is another brilliant feature of this website – it’s all anonymous but as mentioned above, the people here are brilliant in providing support.  

Kind regards  

Neil

[geoff]

dear Eastenboy, my absolute sorrow for the passing of your son, my god, I could never ever be able to understand why this would happen, and my total condolences to you.

The pain that surges through your body would only be something that you know, but there are a lot of great sympathetic people here who would just love to offer their support for yourself.

Please take your time, as this horrible incident can be helped either by professionals, as well as the people on this site, who have also been to hell and back several times, so we know what this means for you. Geoff.