Hello everyone!
My name is Isaiah, I live in the US, Maine with my young family and I currently am working from home/staying at home with the kids over summer. I am finding that I have tons of free time, at least time that can be spent on the computer so finding this forum is great and I hope to make some good connections here. This group relates well to me in a lot of ways, one I am a bit of a social introvert groups and crowds of people that I dont know make me uncomfortable and I generally try to avoid them. If it was not for my wife, who is the exact opposite, I think that I would have been locked up in my room for the past twenty years, my wife makes me normal. In 2003 I lost my father to suicide, I was 18 at the time, this was abrupt at the time but in hindsight I can see the signs years before. Now I have this low grade fear that I will end up like him, drinking, third marriage, looking and failing to find happiness. Since then my sisters and I have started a camp for children who have experienced a similar loss, we are in our forth year and third season of the camp. You may find that I will plug my camp a lot around here, and it is not because I am trying to advertise or anything like that, it is more because through the lends of the camp project it is easier for me to talk about my fathers death. Because of this camp I am a decent resource for dealing with the effects of suicide, so feel free to reach out if you have a need or want. Anyway, that is about it, glad to be here and I look forward to being a part of the community.
My name is Isaiah, I live in the US, Maine with my young family and I currently am working from home/staying at home with the kids over summer. I am finding that I have tons of free time, at least time that can be spent on the computer so finding this forum is great and I hope to make some good connections here. This group relates well to me in a lot of ways, one I am a bit of a social introvert groups and crowds of people that I dont know make me uncomfortable and I generally try to avoid them. If it was not for my wife, who is the exact opposite, I think that I would have been locked up in my room for the past twenty years, my wife makes me normal. In 2003 I lost my father to suicide, I was 18 at the time, this was abrupt at the time but in hindsight I can see the signs years before. Now I have this low grade fear that I will end up like him, drinking, third marriage, looking and failing to find happiness. Since then my sisters and I have started a camp for children who have experienced a similar loss, we are in our forth year and third season of the camp. You may find that I will plug my camp a lot around here, and it is not because I am trying to advertise or anything like that, it is more because through the lends of the camp project it is easier for me to talk about my fathers death. Because of this camp I am a decent resource for dealing with the effects of suicide, so feel free to reach out if you have a need or want. Anyway, that is about it, glad to be here and I look forward to being a part of the community.