Mental Health Update

A touching conversation of discovery.

I usually have a few short conversations with Dennis, but for some reason today was different. Somehow we ended up sharing our life stories. He shared that his daughter was in a car-accident and paralyzed from the waist down. I shared that my mom had committed suicide when I was just 19. I told him how I found out about family I never knew existed. He told me of his ex-wife and daughter’s struggle with manic depression. He shared that he had his skull fractured when he was mugged on Grant street, but he healed. I shared how my dad got cancer, and is in remission. We both laughed through-out this conversation, saying, you know, you’ve just gotta keep a positive outlook on life…otherwise you’re just going to get bogged down in sadness. Sometimes all you need in life is that (dare i use counseling 101’s term) validation. That feeling that someone else has endured something close to what’s hit you, and they’ve live through it. They’ve succeed. But they understand you better than anyone even though you just met them on a walk. I spent over 45 minutes in the park that morning. I was late. But I had a smile on my face all day.

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