DON'T DO THAT!!!!!! Someone I knew did that, 17 years ago, and it's still having repercussions today. I know you're not serious (I hope!), but don't even joke like that.
In the meantime, until your appointment, your friends are here for you, ready to lend a shoulder to vent and cry on. Take care, sweetie.
OK, I may have overreacted a bit, because that happened to someone I knew, who was very prominent in the mental health community here on Staten Island. He was a peer advocate and he started the first peer advocacy agency on Staten Island. That's why the repercussions still impact us today. I mean, maybe peer services would've come along eventually, but he really started the whole thing and ran it until he couldn't anymore.
I thought you might just be venting. Venting is OK, especially in your case, because you've encountered so many challenges and obstacles and barriers in your efforts to get the care you need. So I can well understand your frustration that would lead you to say that.
You have a lot of friends here who really care about you. I was talking about all you LJ/DW folks tonight at the NAMI Family-to-Family meeting, and how we act as a support network for each other. I hope you know that help is available just about anytime you need it. Of course, please avail yourself of real-life/real-time resources as well that may exist in your community, or a good friend or two you can rely on when times are tough. Even your parents and family can be there for you, even if they get on your nerves and don't always say or do the right things. They probably don't know WTF to do to help you, but hopefully, they can be there for you, maybe in their own way. And if you know what you need, please express that to them, because they can't read minds, and they don't remember everything. So they may need reminding.
Not meaning to lecture you tonight, I just don't want to see anything bad happen to you. I care about you a lot. So do your other friends here. So stick around, please!
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Date: 2017-06-21 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-06-23 04:50 pm (UTC)In the meantime, until your appointment, your friends are here for you, ready to lend a shoulder to vent and cry on. Take care, sweetie.
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Date: 2017-06-27 02:05 am (UTC)I appreciate you very much. *hugs*
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Date: 2017-06-27 03:09 am (UTC)I thought you might just be venting. Venting is OK, especially in your case, because you've encountered so many challenges and obstacles and barriers in your efforts to get the care you need. So I can well understand your frustration that would lead you to say that.
You have a lot of friends here who really care about you. I was talking about all you LJ/DW folks tonight at the NAMI Family-to-Family meeting, and how we act as a support network for each other. I hope you know that help is available just about anytime you need it. Of course, please avail yourself of real-life/real-time resources as well that may exist in your community, or a good friend or two you can rely on when times are tough. Even your parents and family can be there for you, even if they get on your nerves and don't always say or do the right things. They probably don't know WTF to do to help you, but hopefully, they can be there for you, maybe in their own way. And if you know what you need, please express that to them, because they can't read minds, and they don't remember everything. So they may need reminding.
Not meaning to lecture you tonight, I just don't want to see anything bad happen to you. I care about you a lot. So do your other friends here. So stick around, please!