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Originally Posted by Alffe
Thanks for the imput Consider This. I'm so glad you failed in your suicide attempt and have learned better coping mechanisms. I will remember that about B12 levels.
I think it is a little confusing...this SOS title but we can all learn from each other. I am a survivor in the sense that I lost a son to suicide and while it practically killed our entire family....we lived thru it.
This is a place to talk about feelings...suicidal, grief, depression. It's a place to dump those thoughts...Pter (BT) used to call it The Garbage Dump.  |
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that you lost your son, Alffe. that is such a hard thing. (((((((((((Alffe))))))))))
It's not just the coping mechanisms, though. The thing with low B12 is that, at least for me, I had no idea. I just had no idea. I thought it was what was happening to me that was making me want to take my life... and it was, but the things that were happening were causing so much stress that my B12 was being depleted. I had just enormous ridges on my fingernails, that went nearly away when I began having B12 replacement -- but not over night.
Now when my B12 levels are higher, and WAY higher than they say we need at the labs here in the US, so many ideas come to mind, so many ways of handling things. (Even though some of the nerve damage has remained and I continue to have cognitive dysfunction, which was made worse by living in hydrogen sulfide for two or more years.)
What I mean is that it isn't just that I learned new ways to handle the stress, it's that my mind works better now. And, I think it's really important to know that I took ... darn it, I forget the name of the antidepressant, but the very well known one... and it made my B12 deficiency worse, and I had pretty bad side effects. So the antidepressant wasn't good in terms of helping. Though at first it made me feel euphoric. I'm sorry, I'm going on too long.
I just am so sorry to hear about your son. ((((((((Alffe)))))))))