Hi Lincoln,
Thank you for your encourgaing words. I am very glad that I made the right decision, but I must say it could have been different. If I didn't have people that loved me and supported me and urged me to seek help and tell me that I was important, I could have very easily have made the wrong decision. I love that bit of triva about U2 and INXS, very interesting. I deffinatly felt when I was at home before going into the hospital that I was stuk in that moment. I tried to contact a few people, without any luck. Durring that time, I just sat and waited for the phone to ring and was stuck. Finally I snapped out of it and decided to go in. It was very surreal.
I did meet a lot of people in very bad situations that were very good inside. One woman there had spent half her life in jail, used to do tricks a couple times a day for crack money, one time got hit in the face with a baseball bat by her boyfriend and wouldn't leave untill he gave her back her heroine, even though she was bleeding all over the place and have to have plastic surgery to repair her face later. She was not a bad person at all, just made some bad decisions and got delt some bad cards. I pray that she stays cleen and I don't see a warrant some through here with her name on it. It's funny that you brought up that I might have been in there to help someone else out. I definatly believe in God's ultimate plan, and it is possible that there was more reason that I was in there than just taking care of my depression. I had befriended this one woman who had been Dxed Bipolar and placed on lithium. We were talking one day and she mentioned that the first thing that she was going to do when she got home was to drink. Well, I was frineds with a guy who was on lithium and took some thero-flu. With the little ammount of alcohol in thero-flu, the reaction with the lithium caused him to kill his parents, both of whom he loved very much. He is in a mental prision for the rest of his life and is living with what he has done. I don't think that the woman I met in the hospital is going to go straight home and drink with her litihium! Who knows, maybe that was part of God's plan.
That's great that you were a counsoler in midschool. That sounds like it was a great, or at least educational, experience for you. That's great that they asked you to do that.
Thanks again for your kind words of inspiration and motivation. I definatly take them to heart.
Take care my friend
Daniel
Keep on keepin on Kicking some AS
