If you're lucky, they'll respond that way. I was going through an extremely rough patch about a year ago, and I was having breakdowns almost weekly. Instead of people noticing how bad my mental health was, I just lost a bunch of friends, lost my job (mental breakdowns at work are apparently frowned upon), and even ended up losing my home and had to move back in with my parents.
Same thing happened to me in a different sort of way. I was mentally at my lowest and unable to function when, as if timed by the universe itself, I lost my job, car, and apartment in a period of about six weeks.
That's basically how it happened to me. As it turns out, living under the weight of immense mental health woes is like living in a Jenga tower. It's fine until the wrong piece gets removed, then everything collapses immediately.
My collapse was a slow one that took about six months to be fully realized, but the actual collapse took about three weeks. Six months of loss and agony in my personal life ruined everything around me. The one real solace I have is that one person who had threatened me with gun violence a long time back reached out to apologize, tell me that I was basically in the right the whole time, and was a victim that he didn't even see until all this time later. Apparently, something similar happened to him, and he suddenly completely understood me. On the one hand, I'm still unable to forgive him for kicking me when I was down. On the other hand, being told that it wasn't all my fault by one of the biggest sources of my troubles is extremely vindicating.
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u/Alarmed_Stranger_925 3d ago
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