Abandonment

How can people recover from this?

When you are in love, completely and whole heartedly and the one you love leaves, forever. What is a person to do with that? How can a person live without their other half.

The soul shattering pain.

Louis Wain became schizophrenic due to his abandonment. His wife tragically died of cancer. He was an artist and you can tell in his drawings that there was something wrong with his "life like" cats that he drew.
He would draw them while his wife was dying of cancer to cheer her up, and he kept drawing them after she was gone.

I can understand the pain along with the insanity. It could happen to many people given the circumstances. Trauma can be so crippling that you just lose touch with all of reality. You start to live in a fantasy world made up of memories you once shared. You think you see the one you love everywhere you look. Haunting dreams consume you, take over your every thought. You find yourself wearing their old clothes, just to feel closer. You blame yourself for everything that happened. You hate them for leaving you, yet you are still longing for them. The eloquent agony will drag you under like a thick fog in a cow field. It's all you can think of. No matter what you try, no one measures up to them. Nothing is distracting enough. You try, and try again to just forget it but it's always there. It's a permanent hurt. The wounds may heal, but there is scar tissue. Big, ugly and awful scars.


i can't get over you