Poly-Saturated Podcast

[TRIGGER WARNING] : Suicide, death, sadness, mental illness, mental health, grieving, self-harm, trauma, depression, loss of child.
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Our son, who you know as Gelt, has/...had (we still don't know how we're supposed to say that)... a name. His name is John. We debated about having an episode about this at all - about talking about it at all - about anything at all - but, honestly, if we had to fake a pushing of some sort of other episode out right now, we couldn't bring ourselves to do it - and we don't know when we - if we - will ever quite be back to our old chipper selves. So, we did what we have promised you all along and kept it poly real - because this is real life. Though we still hope it's just a nightmare - but we have lived too many horrible days of this process to have that question any longer. If more people discussed the uncomfortable things - the horrible things - the unmentionables... If they could muster the strength and lift their crying eyes off their pillows and tell their truths through the pain and the tears and if more people could just sit and listen - REALLY listen, we really feel the stigma would go down and awareness and more means to help those who are suffering would also improve. Through this episode, we snotted all over our microphones, held each other's hands, took quite a few breaks, and mustered up all the strength we could, and made ourselves discuss the most horrific event we have faced or probably ever will - our son's suicide. Grab your tissues and grieve with us on this episode where we discuss the loss of a brilliant light to this world - our son, our other children's sibling. He took his own life January 16th of this year at 21 years old. He was so much to so many. He lost his battle with depression. Our lives are shattered.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Compassionate Friends
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/
Crisis Text Line
741-741 (United States)
686-868 (Canada)
85258 (United Kingdom)
Survivors of Suicide
http://www.survivorsofsuicide.com/
The Trevor Project
LGBTQ Help line
1-866-488-7386
National Runaway Safeline
https://www.1800runaway.org/Support the show

#Don'tBeaDick is what we said we were going to tagline this episode. Basically, we bounced around and explained the ways that polyamory is the polar opposite of cheating and take you on a ride with us in and around, up and down and back again through our collective rabbit holes.Support the show

This week and next, we discuss mental health and coping and how it would affect all involved. This week's episode covers the lighter end of the two. "Mental illness is common" is something we found out was part of the definition of "mental illness." This episode will give you a chance to get your bearings and tissues together before we get into the even heavier stuff in episode two. With statistics like "1 in 4 adults in the U.S.A. have mental illness," we are bound to have a member of our polycule that's struggling. We discuss statistics and resources here in this episode - amidst our own experiences.
Resources
Nami
https://nami.org/
Join One Love - 5 Lessons I Learned About Helping My Partner Cope with Anxiety
https://www.joinonelove.org/learn/5-lessons-learned-helping-partner-cope-anxiety/
Psych2Go.net
https://psych2go.net/
The other stuff
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