O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells;<\/i>
\nRise up\u2014for you the flag is flung\u2014for you the bugle trills;<\/i>
\nFor you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths\u2014for you the shores a-crowding;<\/i>
\nFor you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;<\/i><\/p>\n
So, my worst day in Kyiv so far: waking up to the news that Robin Williams committed suicide.<\/p>\n
As many of you know, my Dad killed himself in 1996. In the two years after that, weeks of one-on-one therapy for myself and group therapy with other people who’d lost someone to suicide, I learned a lot of things: that suicide is rarely spontaneous – it’s been thought about and planned for often, even if the date keeps changing – and that the overwhelming majority of people who commit it suffer from real, physical pain brought on by a chronic illness: everything from chronic pain from a car wreck years ago to addiction to migraines to chronic indigestion. I just want to throw that out there, for those of you who are struggling with the “why” and wondering why someone with so many friends and resources didn’t get “help” – I’m sure he tried.<\/p>\n
Depression is cancer. It’s just as real. It’s not just a feeling. It’s not just a phase. It’s a tumor in your soul. It needs just as much time and intensive treatment to address. And you may not be able to cure it – you may have to get treated for it for the rest of your life. And even then, you still might not win the battle.<\/p>\n
My heart hurts so much right now. I feel like won’t ever stop crying.<\/p>\n
Stephen Fry, don’t you DARE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up\u2014for you the flag is flung\u2014for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths\u2014for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; So, my worst day in Kyiv so far: waking up to the news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}