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I'm Jack/Jamie.

I'm 28 years old. I graduated from Michigan State University with my Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. GO GREEN! Now I'm a high school chemistry teacher in New York City living with my husband in a small studio apartment we pay way too much money for.

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You may have seen me as CuxMiBeckNow7, but I've since shortened my name.


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Okay so basically,I am 19 & I had a misscarriage almost 2 months ago, suffered rape about 3 years ago and suffer with panic attacks and quite severe depression.
The other day I got into a conversation with a friend as I text him saying, are you awake. This was about midnight, he text back with yeah why, I said I feel down and sad, and just wanted to talk to someone.

He asked me what was up and I just said, I was watching a program on tv called ''Underage & Pregnant'', I knew I didn't wanna watch it but at the same time, I had this urge to, so I did. And it left me feeling low.

He basically said, your not the only one whos been through this, my girlfriend had a miscarriage too and we didnt even know she was pregnant, your always so low and upset and your not the only one, and hes pissed off with it.
I text back saying I have a right to be upset still though :( and he said your still doing it, you know i been through the same thing but your still saying about you being upset.''

At that point I felt utterly crap, I truely feel selfish and almost like I am not allowed to grieve for my unborn child. I dont know what to do, and this has made me feel really bad. Could someone expres their opinion on the matter,


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I think it's not so much you being selfish as him being unwilling to sympathize.

I mean, to a point, we're all selfish. We all like to talk about ourselves and we all like to talk out our problems sometimes. Honestly, that's not that selfish.

I would only call you selfish if that was ALL you talked about to EVERYONE you knew. If it's not, then you're fine. If it's like 20% of your conversation or less, I think you're fine.

If you don't talk about much else, maybe you are selfish. But being selfish or not doesn't take away the pain you've gone through, and I think it's alright if you talk it out. It's natural.

--Jack
(17/m)

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