hi,
I lost my grandfather and my step dad to mental illness. My grandfather had serious problems with anxiety and my step dad had bipolar disorder; they both committed suicide.
It's weird because I'm the third member of my family to have a serious mental illness and I specifically have problems with suicidal thoughts.
I have a picture with me and my grandfather sitting together and on the other side I have stuck a picture of my step dad.
I feel I failed my step dad. I feel like I should have recognized the behavior and taken some action. He understood me like no other but I didn't realize that. I let the whole thing slip through my hands.
It's something that I don't tell people. My sadness and eternal feelings of failure.
Death is weird. It's like one second you have someone and then you don't... and that's that. There is no more.
I tend to not show emotions where this is concerned. All one can do is put the head down and keep walking... don't look back... don't ever look back... just keep walking.
-ew
I lost my grandfather and my step dad to mental illness. My grandfather had serious problems with anxiety and my step dad had bipolar disorder; they both committed suicide.
It's weird because I'm the third member of my family to have a serious mental illness and I specifically have problems with suicidal thoughts.
I have a picture with me and my grandfather sitting together and on the other side I have stuck a picture of my step dad.
I feel I failed my step dad. I feel like I should have recognized the behavior and taken some action. He understood me like no other but I didn't realize that. I let the whole thing slip through my hands.
It's something that I don't tell people. My sadness and eternal feelings of failure.
Death is weird. It's like one second you have someone and then you don't... and that's that. There is no more.
I tend to not show emotions where this is concerned. All one can do is put the head down and keep walking... don't look back... don't ever look back... just keep walking.
-ew