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[bald-man]

As I sit here at my desk in my home office I have tears pooling up in my eyes. Life has been extra cruel lately. I have so much to be thankful for but it's hard to focus on the good when theres so many challenges. Anxiety and depression have been teaming up for an assault on my mental and physical health. Heres life in a nutshell:

-Mom was diagnosed with vascular dementia, almost died and is not in a dementia care home

-I have sciatica pain and a mild heart condition

-The business I was planning on buying out shut down after an old partner made decisions that led to failure and opened the business and me (as well as themselves) up to legal action and I have tax and credit card debt from those actions that I can't pay

-A past client of the business is causing legal trouble for me based on the inaction of my old partner

-My startup business never took off

-The job I have pays 50% less than I was previously making

-My son was falsely accused of domestic violence by an ex fiance. He beat the charge but had accumulated a large attorney bill to do so and I'm not in a position to help him pay the bill

-I have business "friends" that have stopped talking to me because of the business mess

-I have church "friends" that have stopped talking to me

Good things that I try to remind myself of:

-My wife loves me and I love her

-I have two healthy sons that are independent and hard working, good people

-My new church family is proving to be supportive

- I may have found a new career that has potential

Looking forward in participating in this community!

[Dolphin14]

bald-man

Welcome to the community. I'm very sorry you have so many things going on at once... very big things. It's hard not to get pulled into the dark hole with all of this.

What's so good is you wrote your gratitude list! That's awesome that you can see all the good when you are struggling, not everyone can do that.

Looking forward to getting to know you

🐬

[LazyXrayEyes2255]

Brave soul I hope you get through it all. Support you best we can and look after yourself well. Family you have, cherish and love and use their support too! Life is hard and we need the people in our lives. But you are going to make it and tell yourself you will look after yourself and remember all

[TangledUpIn]

Wow. That's a lot to deal with! I'm curious, what is your new career?🙂

[Franklin68]

TRIGGER ALERT! Christian advice

Welcome Man

Your problems are daunting but you found a new church home and if you’ve found people who get true fellowship, hold on tight. So many very lost Christian’s out there. Hopefully they’ll advise and love on you and will help guide you to think and process better. It’s difficult to not get your brain and soul overwhelmed with that amount of problems to solve. Maybe the enemy’s after you and work needs to be done there with them also.

Sometimes practical worldly answers don’t help as much as we hoped , so we go to the boss.

Basically my time here on earth has been pretty crappy. I sure hope this isnt all there is …I least I have some hope

I’m assuming since you’re a sharp businessman, that you have done all you can to research and talk to financial advisors on how to best get through this storm.

Very unfortunately people who stop talking to you are most likely afraid. It happened to me big time when anxiety landed like a B-52?Bomber. . It s not easy watching your lifelong friends shy away .

Screw em!

Make new ones

In many ways you are lucky. A loving family.

Some of mine have manipulation issues far beyond normal. Worse part is their other part of that trait is they cannot see what they do. It’s everywhere

Best

Franklin