Despicable Parents!

[mickd1961]

The story below left me gobsmacked.

A three year olds mum abandoned her three year old son and his dog in frozen conditions just before Xmas 😲😤

There are some truly horrible people out there.

https://apple.news/Ai_hEKYZxSIyNddMkXXOmhg

[boingy]

Who knows what the situation is. Maybe mental illness. My mother had schizophrenia and one of the sites where kids talk about their experiences I remember reading about a mother who arranged a birthday party for her 8 year old son, watched him blow out the candles, then he said I looked out of the window and saw her walk down the garden and set fire to herself. I have similar bizarre and painful scenes in my head from those first three years. There are almost always reasons. Took me 32 years to not feel intense hate toward her.

[Prando]

Who knows what the situation is. Maybe mental illness. My mother had schizophrenia and one of the sites where kids talk about their experiences I remember reading about a mother who arranged a birthday party for her 8 year old son, watched him blow out the candles, then he said I looked out of the window and saw her walk down the garden and set fire to herself. I have similar bizarre and painful scenes in my head from those first three years. There are almost always reasons. Took me 32 years to not feel intense hate toward her.

Such a brave share showing compassionate empathy boingy buddy.
Take care

[mickd1961]

Who knows what the situation is. Maybe mental illness. My mother had schizophrenia and one of the sites where kids talk about their experiences I remember reading about a mother who arranged a birthday party for her 8 year old son, watched him blow out the candles, then he said I looked out of the window and saw her walk down the garden and set fire to herself. I have similar bizarre and painful scenes in my head from those first three years. There are almost always reasons. Took me 32 years to not feel intense hate toward her.

I’m sorry to hear of your difficult early years Boingy.

I completely get your point but my first thoughts are with that child who was left in a freezing cemetery at three years of age, he could so easily have died.

I had a very bad illness when I was around 18-20 months old which lead to a stay in hospital which saved my life, I still have memories of that and can see myself in the hospital garden with my parents when they first visited me after I’d regained consciousness and began to recover.

I gather it’s unusual to have memories from being a toddler of that age so it does show how trauma can stay with you as you yourself have found.

This is something that may stay with this little chap and colour the rest of his life so I really feel for him.

[boingy]

Absolutely Mick. It will impact on him. I feel sorry for the little guy. I do know what its like to feel as though there is no other option but to run away though, and to do it without any care about whether you hurt anyone or not, just because you have no will or fight left and feel abandoned by everyone. The holes from a lack of a caregiver and nurturer are never filled. My first wife of 22 years who attempted suicide three times in our marriage said that her life was like she was walking around the edge of a huge pit just waiting for the time she was going to fall in. She was in her early twenties at the time. Part of my problems now is that I never got help for my childhood problems, and never got help for the emotional wringing out of my first marriage. I lost myself completely somewhere in the middle of it. Its took a huge leap on my part to get help which I will be starting after Covid has gone. Its a mountain to climb, and I might not even get to the top but as long as I can deal with everything better, that's a start. On top of that I support West Brom.