I found this site as a teen. I’m 30 now. It feels weird that I’ve found myself back here after maybe 10 years… But I needed to speak somewhere that wont be known but will be seen. I moved home with parents after a mental breakdown. Like hospitalised mental breakdown of mid life sh*t c*nt proportions. Today my dad and I were looking at new coins on the mint. It led to a conversation about some coins I already had so I left to get them. The box is missing. This collection started in 97 and even though its not crazy valuable I am freaking. I cant cope. Through the chaos of my life this collection has been my ground point. I think I know where it went and I have plans of destruction for the individual but in the meantime it’s too late to keep ripping the house apart searching so I’m edging towards self destruction instead. I am 4 months clean. 4 agonising months that I basically didn’t allow my anything to drive me to that point and now someone else’s choice has me in pieces. I wish i could shut my brain down.
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I can understand how horrible it must feel to lose something like that. Maybe the coins weren’t worth much monetarily, but it sounds like they were priceless, to you. Those coins represented memories, and had life in them. To lose something so precious…it would crush me too.
Grief is a hard cross to carry, but don’t compound it with a bad choice. I guess I say this because you say you’re 4 months clean. In your shoes, I’d feel tempted to escape that way, so I can’t help but feel concerned about you for that. There’s a reason you quit whatever it was you’re clean from. Hold onto that. You grieve the loss of something–don’t add to your loss in order to cheer yourself back up, or one day, you might grieve that loss as well. Just a warm, firm, concerned, warning is all. You’re likely stronger than I suspect.
It will never replace the original collection, but maybe beginning a new, more expansive collection would help you. You’ve lost memories, but you also have memories left to create! Start that collection, and cherish it the way you you cherished the first collection, because in reality, it’s a continuation of the same collection.
Much Love, Much Respect