Dear Elliot8:

I will be glad to go over the various choices with you. Can you state those choices as #1, #2, #3, then clearly and succinctly state the action each entails, the pros and cons. I need it organized.

Regarding the suicide thinking: it is comforting that there is a way for all this pain to end, isn’t it. No more fear, no more shame, no more sadness, no more struggle. The good news is that this solution to all pain gone is real and will happen as it happens to every human, every animal, every plant, every living thing.

What a relief, knowing that these pains, physical, emotional are not forever. Good thing. Take comfort in death. But don’t rush it. It will happen on its own.

Until then, you can reduce your pain, minimize it, prevent future pain. If you remove the shame from your pain, that will help. If you remove the guilt, that will help. Then all you will be left with is the reality of the moment, the choices, and with rational, clear thinking.

anita