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Originally Posted by fotze2
That will never go away. My mom apparently got knocked up long before me and moved to ontario yo give up the kid for adoption. When I was about 30 my mom told me about it and we had one of those Dr. Phil reunions. He was a much larger version of me. Roger Reinsons dad made him.
Anyway he would phone to chat way too much and was very religious. I don’t want to talk about Jesus sorry. He ended up hanging himself in his kitchen for his wife and three kids to find him. I certainly don’t feel good about that.
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When my brother was 17 (I was 23) he tried to kill himself with a Tylenol overdose.
At the time I was in a very unhealthy dating relationship. Late one night I got a phone call (this was so long ago there was no caller ID on that phone, it was just an old analog phone) but there was no one on the line. I just blamed it on the guy I was dating and hung up.
Around 2am I got another call but just hung up without listening or speaking. It happened again.
I then turned the ringer off.
There was a message waiting for me when I got to work at 7 that morning. Please call your dad.
The calls I ignored were from my brother. He wanted to tell me what he had done.
Fortunately, he still lived with my dad and his wife so they checked on him when he didn’t wake up at his usual time.
Tylenol overdoses were a new thing back then, and there was no specific, reliable antidote. Coincidentally, a doctor at a nearby hospital had developed an experimental antidote, as his son had died from a Tylenol overdose.
After a very painful week in the hospital my brother made it.
I still feel guilty all these years later. It’s so hard to get past the “what if’s.”
Our mother is such a heartless creep that she only went to the hospital once or not at all..not sure. She said his suicide attempt was “his problem.” My father, his wife and I were there every day.
My brother and I have not spoken in years, yet he remains close to my mother and her husband for some reason.
Sorry for all of our losses; it’s a sad club to be in.