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Why did Faye's dad kill himself?
bhtooefr:
However, she was raised in the southern US.
Not exactly the most tolerant area.
mustang6172:
Neither Faye nor her mother have a problem with Amanda being gay. Stereotypes are not helping.
Carl-E:
Depends on "rurality". The bigger metro areas are ... well, pretty metropolitan. Atlanta, Memphis, Charlotte, and of course, New Orleans. Being southern doesn't automatically mean religious or repressed!
On Mr. Whittaker's potential mental illness, I'd also like to point out some of the later onset things that can happen. Depression is one, of course, and can strike at any time; so are things like schizophrenia, early onset dementia and / or alzheimers, and several other illnesses.
Now, before someone shouts that the family would have noticed, I'd like to point out that in the early stages of all these (and many other) problems, the first person to notice is the subject / victim / patient. And if her father thought he might be going insane, and perhaps thought he'd "wind up like crazy uncle Joe" or something, he may have thought that the only way to avoid such a fate was suicide.
Or perhaps the illness itself convinced him that it was what he had to do. And that, until it convinced him of this, he had to keep up appearances. Go through the motions. It's surprisingly easy when people expect you to be a certain way to just give them what they expect, rather than go through the questioning and problems that bizarre behaviour leads to...
sitnspin:
I personally hid the full extent of my mental illness for years. The depression was obvious as I had attempted suicide a few times, but the psychotic features I managed to hide from doctors even while institutionalized. It is remarkably easy to hide parts of yourself, even from professionals, let alone untrained observers. It is very easy for even sever mental illness to go unnoticed. We wouldn't have so many tragic incidents if it was not.
And that doesn't even take into account sudden onset. Schizophrenia can set in very rapidly and short term psychotic breaks are far more common than most people realise.
Suicidal ideation is a awful thing to live with and very few people make the decision lightly.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 11 Jun 2013, 18:13 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Jun 2013, 17:25 ---It is entirely possible that I can't see straight on this subject due to my family background.
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On the other hand we have me picturing people openly saying and wanting to put "[*He] was an idiot who didn't deserve to be loved" over my grave and how I deserved to be spoken of like that for not being able to keep going. Feels great.
*Because let's face it: They would have.
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I give you my word that I will not let my pain and anger over what my brother did to us interfere with my respect for you in any way.
It does, however, predispose me to understand the feelings of the surviving Whitakers.
Social conservatism topic: Mrs. Whitaker did not react well to Amanda being gay! Her eventual acceptance was grudging.
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