Good God, you not only have no idea about how devastating and overpowering mental illness can be, you obviously have no in-depth understanding of what the soldiers who experienced the ‘real deal’ went through and what they’re carrying in their minds and souls every. damn. day. thanks to that god-awful experience.

Longest run-on sentence I’ve ever written.

Hopefully, his wife explains to his children that he loved them very much. Hopefully, she helps them as they get older understand what he was going through that made him feel it was necessary to leave them like that.

Suicide is such a hard thing to deal with for those left behind, but the very act of suicide, the taking of one’s own life, should in and of itself tell you that what that person was dealing with was, to them, more than ‘just very strong annoyances’.

Keep trying to get better, Dave. Your empathic side could use some work.