Mental Health - Education, Support and Prevention
16-02-2025 07:39 PM
16-02-2025 07:39 PM
So you know what it meant. Are we same generation? @avant-garde
I started uni as mature age in 1983.
16-02-2025 07:44 PM
16-02-2025 07:49 PM
16-02-2025 07:49 PM
Haha @avant-garde I had a sense you were younger.
STEM was relatively rare for women back then.
It has been good to see more women in the fields and then as tradies with their work boots.
I couldn’t relate to only discussing clothes, hair, makeup, laundry or cooking. So was always a bit of an outlier.
But I am a girl and do have feelings… lol
16-02-2025 08:47 PM
16-02-2025 08:47 PM
My dad hated that I was that kind of kid, I was top of my class for English, math and science. I loved learning, I still do.
It's hard to think what I could've been if trauma didn't get in the way...
16-02-2025 09:13 PM
16-02-2025 09:22 PM
16-02-2025 09:22 PM
Hey @avant-garde ,
I just read your post above. Are you okay?
Are you saying that trauma got in the way of you studying?
16-02-2025 09:27 PM
16-02-2025 09:27 PM
In relation to the last post, it's just a kind of grief, it didn't get in the way of my studying, it has gotten in the way of everything else, the unseen consequences of trauma, job, family, house, usual stuff.
I'm just finding it a bit hard at the moment...
It's the 10th anniversary of my grandmother's death this Friday and I'm feeling it...
16-02-2025 09:30 PM
16-02-2025 09:30 PM
Hey @avant-garde , I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. I hear you are experiencing much grief. Not only your grandmother, but also Life in itself.
It is not wrong to feel grief. There is no right or wrong way to do it.
What do you usually do to help you through this difficult time?
16-02-2025 09:36 PM
16-02-2025 09:36 PM
I normally talk about her, she was the most beautiful, loving and amazing woman, she was my everything, she loved me when everyone told her not to bother with me, she was the only one I ever felt cared about me.
We laughed together, prayed together and she would share stories of her life growing up and I would share my poetry and we would just talk and laugh like I had with nobody else and I miss her so fiercely.
She was the only one in my family to love me and show it.
16-02-2025 09:45 PM
16-02-2025 09:45 PM
And that's such an important part of grieving @avant-garde . To remember the precious times you had with your grandmother and to know that one day, you will meet her again.
How beautiful that you had someone to love you and pray with you.
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