Thank you for sharing your story. It means the world to me.

It sounds like you’re already doing everything you can to help the people in your corner of the world — looking for the signs and addressing them where you can. I don’t have any quick answers for fighting the stigma — so many people use guilt and and toxic positivity in order to guilt people into staying. Just not doing that helps so much.

I am doing my best, as I can. Unfortunately, there are a lot of intersections in my life that are making things tough — my physical health, my financial situation, this general feeling of being stuck — without a way of being productive or involved or able to get out and about are wearing down on me.

Some of them I’ve been trying to fix. Others of them are completely beyond me.