Depression, alcohol addiction, bipolar disorder: an estimated four to five million children in this country grow up with mentally ill parents. Why don’t they get more support?
I often had the feeling that I was unwanted. And just too much.” Derya (name changed), now in her mid-20s, dark, short hair, dark eyes, grew up with an alcoholic father and a mother who didn’t protect her from him.
Presumably, Derya says today, both of them also had depression. At least four or five bottles of beer every evening, sometimes wine or schnapps – that was completely normal for her father, she remembers. And because he was so drunk, he wanted to have nothing more to do with her. “I was missing a sincere interest in myself. And security, reliability and encouragement.”
She grew up in constant fear of the next escalation. “He made me a terrible person…
2024-01-27 17:38:12
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