LOST FEELING

Ever get the feeling of being totally unable to reach out and make a difference when a loved one is down , depressed and just not coping......
Spend hours talking them through the down times, just trying so hard to lift them out of the feeling that they have of worthlessness!
When everything you say to them is the wrong thing, when they hate what you stand for.....appear to hate you for their own strange reason.
Then to be told that they do not wish to be around anymore that they cannot cope with the pressures of life....that they wish to end it all!
Calmly I said, 'You find it acceptable to say that to a loved one. How would you feel if I told you that I could not cope and wanted to end it all.' The response I got was, 'Thats unfair.'
'Can you imagine ,
I would then have to tell the family that you were no longer alive. How hard would that be for me to do.'
The response I got was , 'That's not fair!'
Unfair, I did not think so, unfair for me to try really hard to convince her that she was loved so much by her mother, sister and brother.....her extended family love her too and are so worried.
Life unfortunately is not always easy.
I just pray that she makes it through all this and realises how important she is.