This is heartbreaking and I get it. It's so fucking hard to see someone you love in pain and to know that it can go on and on without getting better. And the constant stress of being in pain and of being a caretaker is crushing. Add the cost of medicine and it creates an environment where death seems preferable. This…

Damn. My mom died this morning this article is making me feel the feels.

I think it is really great that you bring it up and connect the dots. I’m so sorry but sadly not surprised by people’s reactions. I’ve heard the same. I had an abusive childhood and experienced an abisive relationship as well. I too am working on telling my story more often because for me I think that it is a part of…

Agreed! They are amazing books

I’m 37 and I’m only now starting to open up about my childhood and it is still so fucking hard. For most of my life I’ve felt ashamed like there is something wrong with me. The media and our Anerican culture has this idealized notion of motherhood. Sometimes in the past when I’ve shared things I was shamed “that’s…

That's interesting, I've found that people with happy childhoods often pass the most judgement on my limited contact with my toxic mom. It's like they honestly don't believe a mother could act like that, or that it must be a one time slip. Thank you for believing that not all families are like yours!

So true, people just don't get it.

Well put. Children have no power.

That’s interesting. A lot of women too buy into this too though.

I'm on a personal mission. I will not shut up about it.

Yes well said.

Organic a still use pesticides.

YES. Well said. How do people not know this? My 89 year old grandpa tells me about my own family history. People living on farms eating fresh organic produce and dying at 26 leaving 4 kids behind. Families with 8 kids, a parent dies and they need to go into group homes. Death from polio, the flu, dropsy, infected…

Horrible. This is my issue with a lot of the “natural” cures—they have no evidence and prey upon people who are desperate.

That's fucked up! The poor kid!

Yes!

Soooo excited about this!

The whole business really seems like an update on that Victorian tradition to me.

That's their whole marketing strategy: make people afraid of inoffensive chemicals to convince they to buy their products.

My ex fiancé died by suicide a few months ago, oddly he lived close to Duluth MN. His obituary was really clear that he died from alcoholism and depression. I admire that, there is so much shame around suicide.