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Here's a hand to hold. I feel your pain. I'm currently going through a period of numbness after 9 weeks of absolute despair. The numbness is a relief. I can't look directly at the thing that's happened at the moment, my brain has hidden it. Probably not a healthy coping mechanism but I'm not doing it on purpose.

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Thank you Quiet. How far down the line are you with your person? We're v early days (just over 2 months) and I'm benefiting from therapy and wonderful real life friends, but this nightmare is so impossible to imagine unless you've been through it. I just need to know there are others out there still putting one foot in front of the other.
My therapist talks a lot about hope: even tiny things like 'tonight I'll have a chocolate bar'. Hope doesn't get you out of the tunnel, but it lights the way. I'm trying so hard.

hi there west , what your feeling I think is how we all felt in the beginning , you don't know what emotion is is your feeling and yiu feel like your sinking I for one know if I had gone to sleep and not woken up it would have been how I was feeling in the beginning , but I found these forums a few months in and I confided in a few close friends , I spoke with immediate family , my person is not my son he's my sisters son but I love him dearly , it was difficult we all cried we all screamed until it physically hurt it completely broke us. how coukd this be happening not us not our family we all know the stigma that follows these crimes etc its horrific but it's coming upto a year after the sentence and media and every5jing else that come with it we had a very rough ride , it's still hurts now but we move forward we take each day as it comes to moving on , I've found speaking with someone from stop it now helped me a lot , and this forum also kept me going ..I hope you find some support in this forum and by speaking with someone from the lucy faithful could really help you , I think in the beginning you need to allow yourself to feel what your feeling although it's horrid it's relevant emotions to the situations we face it isn't easy but I promise you will get there x

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Quiet thank you <3

Unfortunately there's no prospect of NFA in my person's case, and I fear we're looking at the worst end of the sentencing spectrum. It's just surreal.