Ohhh my heart goes out to John and his daughters. I lost my mother to mental illness too. She had bouts of hospitalization while I was growing up, but was institutionalized in my Junior year of high school. John, you were so wise to seek therapy and encourage your daughters to do the same because it took me nearly 50 years to come out of the “having a mentally ill mother closet” and acknowledge it publicly. Sending you all hugs in solidarity.
Thanks for sharing Deb. I agree. John is a great example of a parent who really gets it and supports his kids fully. That kind of attending to kids who lost a parent was certainly rare a few decades ago and I think (I hope!) is more common now.
Ohhh my heart goes out to John and his daughters. I lost my mother to mental illness too. She had bouts of hospitalization while I was growing up, but was institutionalized in my Junior year of high school. John, you were so wise to seek therapy and encourage your daughters to do the same because it took me nearly 50 years to come out of the “having a mentally ill mother closet” and acknowledge it publicly. Sending you all hugs in solidarity.
Thanks for sharing Deb. I agree. John is a great example of a parent who really gets it and supports his kids fully. That kind of attending to kids who lost a parent was certainly rare a few decades ago and I think (I hope!) is more common now.