Slowly coming out of depression~~~~
Dear Readers, This is Ms. Q. Thank you all for your good wishes of sympathy on the loss of my family member, it has hit us emotionally harder than expected. Only now am I finally slowly climbing out of the abyss of grief. There were moments of clarity where I felt much better and was able to answer a few questions, and then something would happen and send me right down back into that black hole of loss and emptiness. The old Victorians had the right idea that mourning should take a year, a year of deep mourning and then a 2nd year of lighter mourning, when things begin to be lighter but the loss is still felt. In this 21st century I've encountered people who seem to think a person should get over it in a week and get right back into the "swing of things"------ If they only knew, if they really only knew. With all the deaths that are happening here in the USA, and overseas, in Nice, France most recently, people should understand it can take years to come to terms with g...