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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Golden boy. Left a prestigious university just a few credits short of graduation. Moved to the west coast and was a programmer working on early video streaming for porn sites. Hung out with sh**ty people and partied, messed up his body and mind, died in his 40s. You can tell someone that you see them struggling and encourage them to seek help, provide resources to get that help, but ultimately it's up to the individual. Is there a word for slow suicide? [b]I have multiple cousins who knew they would die if they kept going and they kept going[/b].[/quote]

DP. I have three cousins like this. They’re half-siblings, actually, but weren’t raised together. They appeared to be raised MC and certainly had the basics, but all three kids (two who were raised together + their half-sibling) did one more of the following: jail time, heroin, sex offending or heavy alcohol use. All women FWIW. Their parents have been married for over 35 years and had always seemed like good people. Two of the siblings dropped out HS. One got her LPN then RN and pulled her life together dramatically and is clean. Had a teen pregnancy.

The sister she was raised with, I genuinely worry is going to pass away by age 30. She’s still late 20s. She also had a teen pregnancy, followed by another in her early 20s. Both of the babies’ fathers died of ODs in quick succession. She is a heroin addict and her kids were taken away from her. Kid #2 was adopted out to his uncle on the opposite coast. Kid #1 is being raised by both sets of grandparents.

What the half-sibling did is too horrific to detail, but she is severely anorexic and unhoused.

Something really awful had to have happened, or rather, something really important was lacking in this household. The siblings’ parent who is the parent of their stepsister did not did raise her.[/quote]

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