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[quote=Anonymous]My sister died in a car accident when I was a teen. Years later, my mom, who was still grieving my sister and had recently received scary medical news of her own, tried to kill herself.  I had just finished college at the time and was home taking care of her through her diagnosis and treatment, and I woke up in the middle of the night knowing something was deeply wrong.  I found her trying to commit suicide, and intervened.  Being witness to that much raw human pain in someone I loved more than anyone in the world took me to a low I had never known before. And she was embarrassed, frustrated and hurting, and was never really the same after that night.

I wish that I had been older and wiser and better prepared to deal with all the emotions.  She ended up dying a year later, of natural causes from her illness. I miss both her and my sister every day.

It was 20 years ago and the memories are incredibly real, but like others have said, I've experienced real pain and loss and it grounds me.  I have built my own wonderful family and even though our lives are far from fairy tale perfect, I am quite a bit happier and less angst-ridden than most folks around me. There was no bouncing back involved, just putting one foot in front of the other and remembering the most important things I learned along the way.

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