Re: My Damaged House - Part #2

[Guest guest]

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I liked the house with 25 rooms. Your analogy of how some of the rooms have been damaged is excellant.

, I wish you'd go back and reread my answers to your post-- I'm not saying that you are trash or bullshit. I know that you've had your "more than" fair amount of verbal abuse. Losing job after job is hard. I understand that each time you're laid off, fired or downsized, that (you) and (all of us that have had similar situations) feel like we've "Failed" our families and loved ones.

I'm not one to say that Faith will fix it all. I know that my attitude plays a huge role in how I feel each day. I know that it took several years of intense therapy to get over my "downsizing" from several different employers.

I also understood your deer story. Sometimes we all wish we could curl up under a tree and die.

, so many of us are fighting our way through the medical system to get the help we need--and deserve. We see you as equally deserving of good medical care. We've battled through the SSDI qualifications--and all the stuff that goes on with that--just like you're having to do now.

The fact that we've already done this battle--lets us share our experience with you -- and we know that if you stick to it-- it will happen, you will get the SSDI approval and then won't have as much of a hard time as you are having right now.

MAny of us have been treated for severe depression--even getting to a place of wanting to commit suicide-- just like you. That is why we have told you repeatedly to get some help with your depression issue. We know that if you fix some part of that room-- that you will find the strength to start fixing other parts of that room.

, you've said time and again that you use "suicide or death" thoughts to explain what your feeling. You need to realize that not everyone reads every single email that comes out-- or hasn't seen the chain of events that lead up to a individual post. Some of us don't totally understand all that we read-- or can't remember what we read.

I knew you weren't talking about killing yourself in your deer post. I knew that you were explaining that you felt like curling up and quitting the fight to get better--BECAUSE YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU ARE WORTHY OF GETTING BETTER.

gARY,

I know you're angry with your dad--and that you've decided to take his opinion of you to "heart." , you're dad is wrong. You know that. Even with all the crap that been collected from your past (and your story is the same as many of our stories) you have a choice. You have medical care paid for through your VA. You can get the psychiatric care you need-- even if it takes much longer that usual.

, what I'm not willing to do is get into a pissing contest with you about how bad you have it-- vs. how bad we have it. Like you said-- I don't know your whole story-- and you are assuming that my life, and others have had an easier go of it. That is where you are wrong. Many of us continue to have financial problems, marital problems, sexual problems, health problems, depression, --but we've dealt with each of those rooms in our house.

Tracie