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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why were you cut off? Anything you can do to change situation? We are not cutting off but manage around my mom who has mental illness. We talk to our kids about grandmom's sickness and still have them call her once a month and visit a few times a year for a short period of time. I always hate the word cut off since it seems so final and sometimes there is room for a midway point. [/quote]
My father is a depressed alcoholic; he does not communicate with anybody except my mother. I was not singled out. It's more like he cut off the world and left a couple of people, because otherwise he would be completely alone, and he hates that.

He has experienced severe psychological problems throughout his life and self-medicated with alcohol. Now that he is pushing 70, he turned completely antisocial and paranoid. He has not expressed any interest in seeing me or DS in the past 15 years. If DS has a question why his only living grandpa does not want to know him, I will say that grandpa has been mentally ill all his life, and no help was available to him when it could make a difference. He self-medicated with alcohol that pretty much destroyed his life.[/quote]

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