Posted tagged ‘10th floor of Bobst’

Frozen Brain Syndrome

March 30, 2012

As some of you know, the past few weeks have been particularly challenging for me. “It’s post traumatic stress,” my therapist explained. She was referring to the fact that I have become EXTREMELY vulnerable to external stressors.  Things that might be more of an aggravation to someone else, have the potential of bringing me down [...]

November Third Is Coming Up

October 22, 2011

November third is coming up! How can it be almost two years since that dreadful, life destroying morning when Andrew breached Bobst’s non-existent security, and leapt to his death from the tenth floor of that wretched library? That cold, eery, spooky, hungry library! “If there were no witnesses, how do you know that my son [...]

My Son Killed Himself And I Go To Therapy

February 24, 2011

I saw a therapist yesterday. She was highly recommended and those who recommended her were right, I liked her. Quite frankly I’ve never seen the point of a therapist. Even now I am not entirely sure how it works, although… you know… there’s something to be said about being able to… talk. Why are you [...]

Mark Madoff Suicide

December 13, 2010

“Come and read this,” my husband called out to me from his desk on Saturday morning. “What is it?” “Come and see,” he insisted. I walked over to him and he pointed to the computer screen, Mark Madoff, the headline read, had died of suicide that morning. I felt sick, sick, sick. I don’t want [...]

The Day After Tomorrow

September 16, 2010

The day after tomorrow is the day of the Fair. Rayo from Hawaii emailed me on her way to the airport yesterday, ” I am on my way,” she wrote. “See you on Friday.” It gave me butterflies in my stomach, I have been imagining her on her flight to us, wondering what she might [...]

The Petition To Give Suicide A Face & Mental Health A Voice

May 15, 2010

IF YOU ARE FEELING SUICIDAL OR NEED TO TALK PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL LIFELINE 1-800-273-8255 Yes, I have to admit it, the internet can work wonders. I only thought of the petition while I was writing yesterday. It’d never crossed my mind before, and guess what, here it is! Soon after yesterday’s posting went up, [...]

A Question Of Time

May 1, 2010

If You Are Feeling Suicidal Or Want To Talk Please Call The National Lifeline 1-800 273-8255 I look forward to reading my emails at the start of the day, it still amazes me that one can communicate by typing something, then clicking send. I’ve long since wondered though, if in the very immediacy and ease [...]

Why Not Leave It To Others?

April 16, 2010

Yesterday afternoon I started feeling despondent and overwhelmingly sad all over again. A visceral feeling of loss shook me from the inside out. The incredulity and horror of what has happened reawakened, I wondered around myself for a while, then I went to Andrew’s room and pulled down the white box with his effects from [...]

Lord Hear Our Prayer

April 2, 2010

I cannot quite go back to where I was before I learned of Cameron Dabaghi’s death. The similarities between that boy and my son… both East Asian Studies Majors in their junior year, both clearly smart, bright boys. Both of them jumped! Andrew from the 10th floor of Bobst, and Cameron from the 86th floor [...]

Meeting The Lawmakers

March 16, 2010

Rayburn, like all the buildings on The Hill, is huge. Yet, despite the several hundred people working there from morning to night, the atmosphere, from the security check-point at the entrance, to the cafeteria and all along its well-lit corridors, is quiet and calm. Behind the heavy oak doors of each Representative’s office, dozens of [...]


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