My Nonprofit Reviews

When I first lost my boyfriend to gunshot wound to the head in October of 2014, I was feeling so much shock and trauma that I couldn-t function. I knew people loved me and cared about me in my personal life, but they simply didn-t know how to deal with someone in trauma. As the early days wore on, I finally found this site and would rise out of bed, if only to read and write on this forum. It helped me get out of bed and eventually, to work. I didn-t feel nearly so alone. I learned about ways to cope from other survivors further along. I learned to accept my experience and emotions as they occurred, which served to lessen my pain exponentially, at a time when I didn-t think I could take 1 oz. more of emotional pain without completely buckling under the pain and taking my own life.

So, yes, I will be forever and ever indebted to the support I have received here. True unconditional acceptance is something that isn-t always so easy to encounter or to show to others, but I have found both at AOH.