I Lost My Close Friend To Suicide—And I Can’t Talk to Anyone About It Because I Only Knew Her Online “Our friendship, much more intimate and unvarnished than most I have ever experienced, ended abruptly and in a way I dreaded it would.”
), Facebook “friends” are not “real.” He sees very little correlation between “having friends on social networks and actually being able to depend on them, or talking to them regularly.”
If Dunbar’s right, then how do you explain Kate? An outlier? Every single day, from the moment she first DM’d me, Kate and I wrote back and forth religiously, and our correspondence lasted about eight months. Not just once a day, but many times a day, and sometimes for a chunk of the day. We never covered the past, because sometimes it is devastating to think about who you were versus what you are now.
I didn’t know her career—just that she was no longer able to work. I didn’t know her old hobbies—just that she swam as much as two hours a day to try and keep the “demons” at bay. She didn’t tell me anything about her friends “before,” but I knew all about her mother, sister, and boyfriend, who took turns watching over her now. And this is what we talked about: the here and now and how to hold on. The important stuff..
On my end, I tried to gently commiserate but also offer hope. We talked about journaling and meditation,
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