What Ever Happened to Inger Stevens?
Although there is no suggestion that she was struggling at the time of her death, she had called herself “very much a hard-luck girl” in the past and even attempted suicide after a New Year’s Eve party in 1958.
Stevens said in an interview a few years prior to her death that in addition to these near‐catastrophes, she often felt depressed over “many other sorrows, including the fact I came from a broken home, my marriage was a disaster, and I am constantly feeling lonely*.” [Source:https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/what-ever-happened-to-inger-stevens/].
If there’s any truth to the notion that most of us live our lives in “quiet desparation”… then there are those also -who would prefer not to live at’all!
Loneliness! Loneliness (disconnectedness) I am told, is the #1 cause of young adults/teens committing suicide. Among human beings in general, financial reasons is another (men mostly?) -women (depression?). All (most anyways 🤔) this goes away, I believe, with one fell swoop of “The magic-wand called love”! If I…. I have suffered for some time now (25 years) with Dysthymia**. At about 6 years sober, when I began to suspect, I would never enjoy a normal life, the one I pined for (When I came in down Alcoholics Anonymous I had to agendas: stay sober; never be lonely again).
*If a young, beautiful woman suffers from loneliness (there are more out there than you 🤔), then how many more of us who are… 🤷♂️ THINK ABOUT IT! How tragic for such things to exist/occur in what has been characterized as the greatest country in the 🌎.
**I stopped taking medications (too many side-effects and didn’t do much with regard to my mind constantly racing anyways) for my depression when I realized it was not clinical (chemical-imbalance?), but situational. One thing I realize however, I’M NOT ALONE (not the old “misery loves company” thing of course). It’s just that I know I am just one among many who***, to be quite frank, either:
•”Walk a different path” (and suffer alienation, banishment, exile…) or,
•seem to simply be a little (or alot) more aware of something practically all of us seem to be suffering from.
***There’s a difference between feeling “alone in a crowd” and being “all by one’s self” -or is there?
Our 1st allegiance and our primary fall back upon… it’s to God. It’s not. Without God we can never fully escape the loneliness and despair inherent in… No matter what or whom you surround yourself with-without God….
Patrick Swayze and they’re not alike they just think they are
I’ve cried more these past few days with Daisy here with here with me then I have in the last 5 years.
The poor side of town A lot of people move to a better part of town so they don’t have to deal with the world. The real world.
Many people prefer to stay with what’s familiar ( Something their skills have adapted to and they feel somewhat confident in dealing with)- Even if it is uncomfortable, in a comfortable sort of way.and comfortable rather than what’s healthy
Recovery from… depends on 2 things the the degree of damage and our willingness and our attitude and the path