Peter, I always enjoy your pieces. This one hits particularly close to home. I've known seven people who have taken their own lives, six men and one woman. You know two of them, too, two law firm CMOs, and I had dealings with both of them. One was a Stanford grad who married into what passes for old money on the SF Peninsula, the other was based in the Midwest. Three were my classmates. One was a friend and former co-worker whom I'd known for 35 years. The seventh was a nice man from SoCal whose wife badmouthed him repeatedly behind his back. He lost friends, clients, people would avoid him at synagogue.
All tragedies. And you're right...no one wants to hear it, not really. And they're generally not set up to be able to help someone who is prepared to use a short-term solution to a long-term set of problems.
peter… thank you for this. it helps. i am here. and i am not alone.
“Acknowledging that you’re having problems isn’t easy to begin with, and the abrupt realization that nobody wants to hear it makes it impossible.”
It so often feels as if the only one to talk through it all is you… and mostly it’s that voice in your head. Unrelenting. Gets shaped and can be pointed in a somewhat of a positive direction from time to time. Well that and frequent texts to St Jude.
Thanks, man
Peter, I always enjoy your pieces. This one hits particularly close to home. I've known seven people who have taken their own lives, six men and one woman. You know two of them, too, two law firm CMOs, and I had dealings with both of them. One was a Stanford grad who married into what passes for old money on the SF Peninsula, the other was based in the Midwest. Three were my classmates. One was a friend and former co-worker whom I'd known for 35 years. The seventh was a nice man from SoCal whose wife badmouthed him repeatedly behind his back. He lost friends, clients, people would avoid him at synagogue.
All tragedies. And you're right...no one wants to hear it, not really. And they're generally not set up to be able to help someone who is prepared to use a short-term solution to a long-term set of problems.
peter… thank you for this. it helps. i am here. and i am not alone.
“Acknowledging that you’re having problems isn’t easy to begin with, and the abrupt realization that nobody wants to hear it makes it impossible.”
It so often feels as if the only one to talk through it all is you… and mostly it’s that voice in your head. Unrelenting. Gets shaped and can be pointed in a somewhat of a positive direction from time to time. Well that and frequent texts to St Jude.
fucking great