posted on September 13, 2001 04:05:05 PM new
No really. I'm not talking about your political views here but your emotional state .I'm just curious.
I'm prone to depression as a rule but something like this really sends me over the top. (or bottom as it were)
Once you put up your flag, give blood and send off your check to the red cross what next? I find myself going from anger to a sadness so deep that there isn't a name for it.
Sometimes in the middle of the anger phase I get the "nuke em all,let God sort them out" attitude that sends me into an even angrier mood when I realize they have turned me into them. This of course leads to the sadness because that is the last thing I want to be.
How are you coping? Most people tell me they are numb. My husband took all he could of the news and then went to bed for 15 hours straight.
My grandmother used to say "shared grief is lessened" but I don't know if that is true.
[ edited by tegan on Sep 13, 2001 04:22 PM ]
posted on September 13, 2001 04:13:36 PM new
Tegan, go with the flow. Fighting it will only prolong it. So vent, sleep, be angry, be sad....just be what your emotions tell you to be. You arent alone. Took me awhile for it to hit me too.
posted on September 13, 2001 04:18:09 PM new
I've been flip flopping between rage and grief. When the grief becomes too much I go and hold my 9 month old daughter. She smiles and giggles and my world is brightened.
posted on September 13, 2001 04:28:05 PM new
To me is the terror that all the people on the planes and in the WTC were going through. Especially when the victims on the plane knew what was coming. The families hearing loved ones calling them and telling them I love you. But, they tell us we are going to die. The children that are now missing a parent or tragically in some cases both parents, husbands with wives and wives without husbands, mothers and fathers that have lost a child.
But, I give my self solace in the fact that they are with God.
posted on September 13, 2001 04:52:52 PM new
While waiting to hear that they've found who is responsible for this horror, I'm having trouble, emotionally, every time NBC has the family members give the name of their missing loved one(s).
They're showing a picture of them, and begging anyone who may have seen them to please call them. It just rips my heart out. I just can't imagine. There are over 4,000 still missing or un-accounted for. 4,000!!!
uaru - She's beautiful, but you know that.
[ edited by Linda_K on Sep 13, 2001 04:58 PM ]
You are one lucky Dad.
