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Another young man in town hung himself
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 554007" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Some people always had trouble coping. I notate that most people even today do not have trouble coping. I'm going to tell a story about a lady who lived in the 1940's/1950's, allegedly those golden years when you HAD to own up to your mistakes and nobody coddled you. This lady could not cope. She gave birth to a little boy and put him in foster care because she was too "sick" to take care of him. She was ALWAYS sick. She spent her life in bed acting like she was a step away from dying. She did not know her own family...visits were few and far between. She was labeled "lazy." This sick lady lived to be 94 years old. This lady was my great-grandmother, whom my mother named me after. I always wondered why she named me after HER...lolol. I was NEVER as unable to cope as she was, but...</p><p></p><p>These things happened. Nobody talked about them. Obviously my great-grandmother Pamela was mentally ill, but nobody called it that back then. In fact, a lot of my family tree is/was obviously mentally ill, but were not called that. And, of course, nobody outside of the family knew when somebody had an "episode."</p><p></p><p>My poor, sweet grandfather, may be rest in peace, never ever knew a mother or had one because she was unable to cope with having a child...hell, with even getting out of bed. And this was back in the "good old days."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 554007, member: 1550"] Some people always had trouble coping. I notate that most people even today do not have trouble coping. I'm going to tell a story about a lady who lived in the 1940's/1950's, allegedly those golden years when you HAD to own up to your mistakes and nobody coddled you. This lady could not cope. She gave birth to a little boy and put him in foster care because she was too "sick" to take care of him. She was ALWAYS sick. She spent her life in bed acting like she was a step away from dying. She did not know her own family...visits were few and far between. She was labeled "lazy." This sick lady lived to be 94 years old. This lady was my great-grandmother, whom my mother named me after. I always wondered why she named me after HER...lolol. I was NEVER as unable to cope as she was, but... These things happened. Nobody talked about them. Obviously my great-grandmother Pamela was mentally ill, but nobody called it that back then. In fact, a lot of my family tree is/was obviously mentally ill, but were not called that. And, of course, nobody outside of the family knew when somebody had an "episode." My poor, sweet grandfather, may be rest in peace, never ever knew a mother or had one because she was unable to cope with having a child...hell, with even getting out of bed. And this was back in the "good old days." [/QUOTE]
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