“I am completely wrecked. My trusted friend and farm sitter of almost 20 years, ignored my horse’s colic symptoms and watched her suffer for two days until April died. The farm sitter was shocked to find her dead. We came home to a dead horse in our corral who had been there for two days, and our other horse being absolutely frantic. It’s been three weeks, and the farm sitter has not contacted me in any way. We are no longer Facebook or any other kind of friend. She’s just someone that I used to know. I don’t have the energy reserve to sustain any kind of anger or hate toward her. My horse suffered a horrible, agonizing death. That’s where my pain and anger are. This is such a deep betrayal of trust. I don’t even know what I would say to her as she seems to have no regrets or feelings of accountability. I no longer feel I can leave my farm because I can’t trust anyone to not let my animals die. April’s unnecessary death will haunt me forever.”

“I worked really hard on a project that I wanted to share as a gift to my community. I was proud and excited. But within a few minutes after I posted it, some other guy in the community posted about how he came down with Covid and wanted to warn everyone he spent time with to watch out for symptoms, and a ton of people commented on that, and my share got buried. Now of course, I respect that he posted this and of course I care about the guy’s illness. But at the same time, I worked so hard to share this thing I created especially for the group, and now no one will even see it. I feel like a little kid with my reaction, of course. But nonetheless, I do get like this. And it’s not a fun feeling.”

“I don’t like leaving my house anymore if I don’t have to. On my days off work, I will even have groceries delivered so I don’t have to go anywhere and I do all my other shopping online. I am either at work, or I’m at home resting on the couch and rarely do anything else. I just like to relax at home with my dogs. I feel a little bad about this too. I used to like going out and doing things. I have 3 school aged kids and often have days off through the school week. What should I do?”

“My only child overdosed, now has a traumatic brain injury, and will permanently live in a nursing home. I’m divorced and have no family other than addicts. The father has been out of the picture for years.”

“No matter how much loving, kind and helpful I am to my family they always treat me with disrespect, ignore me for all the important discussions and treat me like a maid. I also feel that people give me less than I deserve. I have been working on my self worth but at times it hurts a lot.”