>>23714779>i tried to get her to consider seeing a therapist several times in the past, for all three of our sakes, but her mom kinda used therapists/psychiatrists to control her when she was very young.Jesus, reminds me of a second cousin I have, here mom did the same to here.
Well, hopefully your mom’s on the right track.
>>23714800Been a lot of death in my circle of life right now too, my godfather figured passed in September, not long after I was out of the hospital and elderly dog of mine passed away. Found out dad has an aortic valve problem, is going to need open heart surgery sometime next year. Already had to get treated for afib in September as well. Got some elderly relatives on my mother side who are practically death’s doorstep right now.
Death is one of those things we’re desensitized to, there’s death everywhere in the media—the news, in games, television, movies—skeletons and zombies and gravestones at halloween, etc. I think we’re so desensitized to it. There’s a sort of disassociation with the concept. So much so that we take life for granted. Thinking about it people in the past had had a greater reverence for death probably because they weren’t so desensitized to it like death in the Victorian age with a pretty big thing, mourning for over a month the rituals they had surrounding funerals and people’s memories. And then part of it two might’ve been because there was so much more death in those times people are much more aware of the reality of our mortality; more in touch with it so to speak. I shouldn’t probably be alive today, my left lung partially collapsed and filled with fluid. They drained 2 L of it out of my chest cavity had not been for modern medicine probably would’ve got pneumonia died.
>>23714804You’ll understand, maybe not today but one day. Maybe in 60 years, or maybe tomorrow. Eventually, we all have to face our own mortality.
