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When it rains, it pours, and July 2011 was a goddamn monsoon. In just that one month, there was my suicide attempt, my husband Doug leaving, and then the final icing on the cake — my four-year-old cat Macha nearly dying. Less than a week after Doug left, I noticed Macha was becoming increasingly agitated. [...]
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Margaret Cho once said that “privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.” So, a deep breath, and here we go — the story of how I tried to kill myself in July 2011 and how I continue to struggle past it. *** Several hours [...]
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. [...] We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe [...]
August came and went (in the most excruciatingly slow way), and still no word from Doug. At that point, I had sent dozens — perhaps even a hundred — e-mails and texts begging him to call me. I offered to do anything and everything if only he’d come home or, at the very least, pay [...]
As I walked to the Metro train outside the court house, I vomited and felt a familiar, desperate gnawing — the gnawing of anxiety, desperation, and hopelessness that psychologists euphemistically call a suicidal ideation. I sighed and debated staying on the train until I was calm enough to be safely at home alone.Lost in my [...]
Here, a few thoughts that never made their way into Living Incidentally: Part One to Four… 1. Family and Friends — Explaining a Glaring Omission In the pages I wrote about the past few months, there was little mention of the family and friends who loyally got me through this mess. Though not mentioned explicitly, [...]
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Margaret Cho once said that “privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.” So, a deep breath, and here we go...On this blog you'll find the story of how I tried to kill myself (Living Incidentally Parts One to Four & Epilogue) and the story of how I continue to struggle past it.
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