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My daughter just called me to tell me that one of her friends came home from school yesterday to find that her dad shot himself in the bathtub. I am in total shock. What a horrific thing for a teenage girl to witness. This is the second father of her friends to die suddenly in the past month. Totally depressing.


Angie:(
 
OMG, I'm so sorry to hear this Angie!!!! My thoughts and prayers are with your daughter's friend and family. :(
 
I am so sorry to hear that. So many of our youth have to deal with awful things that we'd like to shelter them from.
 
Wow, the poor family. My friend's mother hung herself in the basement a few years ago. I hate to make the situation more depressing, but none of the kids have been the same since. I hope they all pull through somehow!
 
I am so sorry to hear this! I have experienced this, and I can promise that with great counseling and just one faithful prayer, this friend and all involved will get through this and be stronger in spite of it.

How is your daughter feeling? I know she probably wants to help her friend, but the words aren't there. I feel really bad that we see these kinds of things in life. I will definitely be praying for you guys!

hugs,
missy
 
Having lost my father to suicide when I was 11, I totally feel for the family. Being a teenager is tough enough, but coping with a parent's suicide is yet another matter. Let's just hope they quickly get her to counseling. There are lots of issues to deal with after a trauma such as that. I just wish my mother had gotten help for my sister and me when it happened to us.
 
Thanks everyone for your support.

Truton - I'm so sorry you had to deal with this as well. It can't be easy and I can't imagine coping with this type of tragedy at such an early age. I also hope that the mom and all 3 kids get counseling soon. The funeral is Monday night.

Apparently he was ill for some time and my daughter's friend insists that the medication he was on was what made him kill himself. I guess more questions will be answered later but if he was that ill, I would think he should have been put under hospital care. And I just don't understand why he wouldn't have at least the state of mind to know that he was putting himself in a position for his kids to find him in such a horrific state that had to have been excruciatingly traumatizing. But then again, I don't know all the details...

I had a very very bad period of chronic depression a few years ago and before I got treatment, the ONLY thing that got me through was knowing that as bad of a person and a mother as I thought I was, I was the ONLY mother to 2 young girls and there was no way I was going to make them go through life without a mom.

Angie
 
Wow. How sad. That poor man must have been so desparate that he never even thought of the fact that his daughter might find him. :( What a tragedy.

Truton, my heart goes out to you too for your loss. I can't even imagine rising above that. My dad passed away (natural causes but compeltely unexpected - he was a VERY healthy man) when I was 19 (he was 51) and I just felt so cheated and depressed. I can't imagine the turmoil that something like this causes.
 
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