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Noelia González Barrancos's avatar

I don't know you, but I've always related to you whenever I've listened to you on Dopey or read your Ask Erin entries. Lately I've thought about you and wondered how you were doing. I'm glad you're hanging in there. That's how I manage to feel ok despite everything, I take comfort in the thought that other people are struggling too but keep going on. We are not alone. We are seen. We are loved, even by strangers.

Erin Khar's avatar

❤️❤️❤️ thank you and you are absolutely right. We are not alone. And we are loved. ❤️

Meg Hartley's avatar

Thank you for your post, it's all too relatable. I'm sorry you're in it, but glad you've got people in your corner, and please know that YOU ARE BENEFICIAL, this (semi-) stranger on the internet absafuckinglutely knows it. 🩷

Erin Khar's avatar

🥹❤️thank you

Deidre Woollard's avatar

It passes. Sometimes, it feels like it will never pass, and the hardest thing in the world is just to wait. I don't know about you, but my mind is a trickster, it will put a new face on an old issue so that I feel like this isn't the same, but underneath, it always is. I'm glad it's easing a little for you, just some space and breath can be everything.

Erin Khar's avatar

It always passes. Making it thru those moments is a relief! ❤️

Deidre Woollard's avatar

It passes. Sometimes, it feels like it will never pass, and the hardest thing in the world is just to wait. I don't know about you, but my mind is a trickster, it will put a new face on an old issue so that I feel like this isn't the same, but underneath, it always is. I'm glad it's easing a little for you, just some space and breath can be everything.

Rev. Angela Denker's avatar

Very relatable! Thank you.

Louise Wilhelmiene Hayes's avatar

I can completely relate on so many levels. After nearly six years of recovery I still feel like I am often on a precipice of self-destruction. And it doesn’t even have to take something as catastrophic as the fall of democracy to do it, although that certainly has not helped.

Thank you for being brave enough to admit what many of us have trouble articulating.

Erin Khar's avatar

Hugs ❤️ I don’t know if it gets easier but I have definitely continued to get better at handling it, at reaching for tools.

Steve Schneider's avatar

Erin,

So sorry to hear of the turmoil you were experiencing. Glad that the fog has lifted. Sending good vibes your way….

Stay Strong my Friend!✊❤️

Erin Khar's avatar

Thank you, Steve! ❤️

Gary Douglas Smith's avatar

Hi Erin, sharing your mental health challenges has been so helpful to me. Thank you for your vulnerability.

Erin Khar's avatar

Thank you so much, Gary!