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Jack Priest ([personal profile] bitten_notshy) wrote in [community profile] fandomtherapy2014-12-18 11:33 am

Secrets Secrets Secrets!

It's been six months since we were in here, and I'm bored. Tell me your secrets, Fandom. Big ones, dirty little ones, or the very best kind -- big dirty ones.

As always, this is OOC-but-IC.

[identity profile] pasunereveuse.livejournal.com 2014-12-18 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I hold myself directly responsible for my mother's suicide.

And the one and only person I've ever told assured me that it absolutely isn't my fault, and that I shouldn't feel guilty over it, but the thing is: it is. I know it is. It's because of what I am, and how she reacted to that.

And I have to live with that.

[identity profile] nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com 2014-12-19 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Do not ever say that.

Your mother was troubled and mad and had demons that dragged her into the darkness. That had to be what happened. Because the other possibility, that she simply gave up on a beautiful, loving child, because goodness, there were obstacles? That would make her, by every consideration, a worse mother than my own.

And I'm not even sure such a thing is humanly possible.
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[personal profile] sharp_as_knives 2014-12-19 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Whether her difficulties with you contributed to your mother's reasons for suicide, it is still not about you, nor is it your fault. It is about her inability to cope with you, which is entirely on her. And I've no doubt it's about other things as well; suicide is rarely due to only one thing.