New Story - Sunset Shimmer - Six Friends One Heart · 3:14am Mar 29th, 2021
So released another story a few dates ago...
Sunset Shimmer - Six Friends One Heart
As I mentioned in the Author's notes in the prologue, this story reflects my own in many ways.
A few years after MLP came out, I suffered from an illness that left me paralyzed from the chest down.
While in rehabilitation, learning to live and work with my new life, a well meaning therapist referred me to a story where the protagonist was traumatically paralyzed. The story was written as a journal, believable and very relatable. I was feeling and dealing with the profound grief and loss described in the story.
At the end of the story, the main character, working through his loss, realized he had no reason to live and killed himself.
This had a profound effect on me. I was already dealing with my physical losses and profound emotional loss. I become suicidal. I’m sure that was not this person's intent, but the story felt like a B* slap into oblivion. That is also the reason I am not linking that story here.
I got help. I found support, and with the help of my friends, I was crawled out of the ‘hole’ I was in and reclaimed my life.
Anyone, if you find yourself thinking that I BEG you to get help. NOW. Make that call, send that email. Reach out! You are NOT alone!
Visit the https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ website, or call their hotline at 800-273-8255. Don’t put it off. Your life MATTERS!
So this story is my answer to the nightmare I traveled, my love letter to anyone else who finds themselves on that journey. There is hope, there is love, and there is a reason to live. And Friendship REALLY is magic!
I hope anyone who reads it enjoys it. And I hope anyone who needs it, finds hope. You are not alone.
Sorry about your illness.
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Thanks! Can't complain too much though, lived, and that's great.
Well, most the time.
Hole lotta suck lately with the whole COVID lockdown.
I hop you and yours are doing well.
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No prob! This Covid stuff sucks though! I'm only 13 and I think I caught a tiny bit of Covid once. I got rid of it though. But when I had it I still had to work.