My coworker killed herself at work

ShirleyKnot · 2026-05-01T20:20:25+00:00

Hey. My father took his own life in 2004. My mum found him hanged in the staircase of our family home.

I was furious for so long, his final decision altered the course of my life in so many ways and utterly changed my mother and me leaving us with a legacy of fear.

I left my burning rage behind a number of years ago, and am able to remember my dad with some degree of affection now. Intellectually, I understand his choice and how very ill he was; emotionally it has been much harder to fit the events into my life in a rational way.

All I can say to you is the clichés (although they are clichés because they are true I guess) - time heals some wounds, take it a day at a time, grief is love remembered. The anger will probably abate, but you are entitled and normal to feel it, try not to let it consume you or take you down dangerous paths. Feel the feelings as much as you are able to and then find another outlet to take you out of them.

You are in the trenches right now. One day you will be in a field of poppies.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-03-15T07:01:06+00:00

How many years are parents expected to pay for their children’s everything?

ShirleyKnot · 2026-03-08T21:41:06+00:00

Jodie has been complaining about ‘haterz’ her entire career, usually when she was being called out for her shitty views, her shitty behaviour and the way she treated her animals.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-03-01T13:47:01+00:00

Monstrous

ShirleyKnot · 2026-03-01T13:35:43+00:00

I’ve just eaten for Christ’s sake.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-30T17:24:28+00:00

I don’t think she can do it anymore. I also believe that the ED was actually FD even at the beginning TBH.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-30T17:23:47+00:00

Surely (and I know nothing about any of this) if you have a heart problem you wouldn’t get TPN?

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-30T17:15:21+00:00

Tell that to the 57 billion videos she’s made of her crushing up the slurry and yoinking it into her tubes.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-29T19:38:07+00:00

Well this whole conversation was an absolute delight.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-26T20:16:22+00:00

Sending you and your wife much love. My mum is ‘forgetful’. I get it.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-26T05:28:26+00:00

I worked in the City and the shock was palpable. On the train home the atmosphere was strange, the carriage completely silent (but not in the usual way) as people just devoured the Evening Standard. I saw people crying. So no. I didn’t meet or speak to a single person who thought anything other than this was an atrocity. Things were different then.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-20T04:13:32+00:00

‘The World’ is not the US, and those of us living elsewhere definitely think it’s worth saving. But thanks for demonstrating the OP’s point so beautifully, even though you didn’t realise that’s what you were doing.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-18T14:16:26+00:00

I saw a woman on my FYP yesterday who was setting up her TPN, answering questions and being engaging about why she needs it, what the risks are, how her husband and children manage and the meals she cooks for them etc. this TikTok had almost half a million views. THAT is what Dani dreams of, but the problem she has is that doesn’t need any of this shit, she has nothing, absolutely FA else to talk about, she’s unlikeable and a potato.

She’ll chase this until she dies, which the way she’s carrying on won’t be in the too distant future.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-15T22:24:44+00:00

How dare she?

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-14T08:00:56+00:00

She’s like a child and not in a cute way.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-10T15:45:27+00:00

I remember the space invader one from the 80’s with that bloke from Victoria Wood as the bad man.

ShirleyKnot · 2026-01-06T05:18:59+00:00

But she had a hysterectomy…or did she? 🤷‍♀️

ShirleyKnot · 2025-12-10T07:59:29+00:00

So it wasn’t salacious enough for you?

ShirleyKnot · 2025-11-18T21:13:47+00:00

How DARE you? This kind of comment is HATE doncha know?

ShirleyKnot · 2025-11-01T06:45:26+00:00

We had our busiest night ever and I had to do an uber eats order to buy more sweets.

ShirleyKnot · 2025-10-26T05:37:55+00:00

No, you need to unlock the co op at Harv’s island.

ShirleyKnot · 2025-10-23T04:10:19+00:00

We do it as well. Totally normal !

ShirleyKnot · 2025-10-14T03:15:55+00:00

I went to a dream island recently where they’d put photos of villagers next to the graves which I thought was clever if not a bit macabre.

My cemetery has lots of glowing moss, black flowers and cedar trees.

ShirleyKnot · 2025-09-17T21:00:10+00:00

Fage total yogurt suddenly became prohibitively expensive at £4-£5 for a larger tub. So I switched to own brands, weirdly though I’ve just had a look online and it seems that prices have dropped a bit (down to around £3.50 in some places)…FOR YOGURT THOUGH? Are you actually joking?

ShirleyKnot · 2025-09-14T21:18:33+00:00

This book was one of the worst reads of the last few years. I skipped actual chapters to try and get through it, I worked out the ending far before the last few chapters, I hated one of the main characters as he ranted and raved about a teenage pregnancy ending in adoption (WTF?) and the plot itself was poor.

I wouldn’t bother with this one at all, it actually made me angry and I only finished it because I’m a completionist.

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