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Stephen Kemp
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Am I the only self-hater here?
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I hate myself. It is something that I believe grew from repeated child abuse (usually at female hands). It is something that became a practiced part of my life and built up to self-injurious behavior…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jim Aug 15, 2011.
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- About Me:
- 43 year old male Englishman living in New York State for the last 14 years.
- About my Loss:
- My wife of 14 years died Jun 30th 2011. She had been chronically ill with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis since about a year before I met her. As life progressed she became sicker, developing nerve conditions, COPD and rheumatoid lung, diabetes and several other conditions. Given this her death was not a surprise, but for all that people think that makes it easier it doesn't.
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Hi Stephen,
I feel for and with you now. My brother died this past March, and it was not a surprise either. It perhaps lessens the traumatic shock aspect of sudden deaths, but all the sadness, heaviness, lack of energy for life, are the same, I think.
I hope you can find a way to make it through these next days, weeks, months, etc. I'm one that believes that "time" itself, doesn't do the trick. I think some ritualized grieving practices helps, whatever they may be for you. My brother's ashes are in another country, and I have no cemetery to visit, but I do other things - listen to music, look at his pictures, just take out some time to be with him again. This helps me.
All the best to you at this sad time of your life.
Susan