Over 30 years ago...

[LeftyFingerPop]

I was in University in a tough an competitive program. I was going to school full time, and I was working 35 to 40 hours a week. I paid my way through college, and I was dirt poor.

My long time girl friend had just broken up with me. We were very close, and her parents were like my parents. My dad had passed away several years earlier, and my mom suffered with debilitating depression to the point where she would lock herself in her room for several months...so i didn't see a lot of her.

During finals week during a particularly tough semester, my girlfriend had broken up with me, and I was of course, devastated. Very shortly after this, I was getting ready to go to work...sitting at the kitchen table, eating some chicken. I was reading the paper.

While I was eating, I read in the paper that my girlfriend's mom had killed herself. the details of her suicide were published.

I had no one to grieve with. i did go to my ex girlfriends house that evening and spoke to her extended family as my girlfriend sat in the arms of her new boyfriend.

This one event seemed to set off a series of crushing major depression episodes that I still deal with today.

Thanks for reading.

[applegrove]

1. That sounds like a very tough time in your life. It is very hard to go through things

alone. But we get stronger for it.

[BarenakedLady]

2. I'm sorry

:hug: