Posted by Tom on September 30, 1999, at 22:01:11
In reply to elle - me too, posted by Thumper on September 30, 1999, at 20:39:19
> I lost my mother to suicide when I was 14. That was 26 years ago. It's amazing to me how that one life lost had such a ripple affect on so many people. In the midst of deep depression (been there....)it seems like you are alone in the world. But I can attest to seeing even our mailman cry when he heard about mom's death. Depressed people don't seem to see the love around them.
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> My mothers death impacted our family like a bomb blast. Instead of pulling together, we all ran off in different directions. All these years later, its still the same way.
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> This is the sort of loss you never get over - you just get used to it.
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> TDad died when I was 7, in front of my very eyes. We were an ethnic family which was tightly woven. We completely scattered. It just so happens that everyone else suffered when Dad died, except little Tom (that's me) took 20 years to deal with the bomb blast. It's funny how life moves in a circle.
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