Posted on 02/07/2015 9:35:05 PM PST by OddLane
I don’t often use this space for personal appeals, but feel compelled to do so today. In addition to losing my uncle, John Marmo, earlier this year to suicide, my best friend, Fiona Fort, took her life after struggling with the chronic pain of depression for most of her adult life.
Even if you are fortunate enough to have never grieved the loss of a loved one to this disease-or to know someone suffering from suicidal ideation-I urge those of you who can to contribute to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Denver Metro Walk Out of the Darkness Community Walk.
It’s a long name for an extremely important event. Your donation will be put towards one of the primary organizations dedicated to understanding and preventing an act which takes the lives of over 40,000 Americans each year. You can read my friend Ann’s story and donate to her cause here.
(Excerpt) Read more at american-rattlesnake.org ...
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Prayers for them all, and for you.
I’m very sorry about your uncle, G. Thank you for reminding us about Fiona. Too many of our old UT FRiends are gone.
"Walk out of the darkness"; yes, that has a familiar sound.
Why Have I Been Weeping?I tried to be supportive. I think it helped, a little. One thing I know for sure; Cheerfulness is Kryptonite for depression.
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I only know the answer to a question still unasked,
For it is the answer always for the way we have been tasked.
The answer is to love someone, though someone brought you pain,
Even though you’re hurting now, you still must love again.
For love is still the answer to the way to get through life,
And it doesn’t matter if you fail, or if you live in strife.
You must share your pain and loneliness, and laugh it all away,
And you’ll find that pain is ebbing as love’s tide flows in today.
Step out of the shadow of the pain that brought you grief,
And hold a child, and see her smile, and you will feel relief.
No matter how you’re hurting, and no matter what you’ve lost,
There’s even more to be received, with negligible cost.
Your life has many turnings, at the end you may look back,
And though you know you lost something, there’s nothing that you lack.
The life that seemed so shattered has been made into a whole,
And your audience applauds you for your stunning, starring role.
NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 19, 2004
It may feel artificial to you if it doesn't come naturally, but if you can fake it for long enough, it becomes real.
Once optimism becomes what you do, it becomes what you are.
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Thanks, Bob.
Suicide touches everyone and I can't imagine going thru the depression thinking you are all alone with no hope or bipolarism that is too often the cause.
The one most memorable to me and one I continue to shed tears for whenever I think of him is "TrappedInLiberalHell"......Just a young kid who had a website on gardening when he left us....
Iirc, he and Jacqui were married.
Yes, they were, briefly.
I miss nina0113. She got sick with something and died before they diagnosed it. We liked the same books and both had a crush on Lord Monckton, the anti-global-warming speaker.
Who, TrappedInLiberalhell? I never knew he was married........
“Briefly,” OddLane says.
It was a long time ago. Many people have changed their names since then.
He is on Free Republic’s Memorial Wall, as Chris Van Loon.
But I think they wanted to leave a record ... footprints, you might say.
And ... they were happy, for a time.
Depression may be catching. I hope it isn't contagious. Read at your peril.
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