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angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 07:34 PM Oct 2017

My mother said when I attempted suicide "she just wants attention"

What the fuck is wrong with attention?

When my son ran away..she (my mother) said 'he just wants attention'...and I told her...well I can GIVE him that attention...and I ran after him!

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My mother said when I attempted suicide "she just wants attention" (Original Post) angstlessk Oct 2017 OP
I'm sorry shenmue Oct 2017 #1
That was when I cut my wrists...when I took sleeping pills.. angstlessk Oct 2017 #2
Everyone needs attention, especially from those they 'love,' elleng Oct 2017 #3
I agree, when a mother finds attention a way to abuse angstlessk Oct 2017 #6
Sounds like a heartless reaction to me. Kath2 Oct 2017 #4
I'm sorry your mom was like that irisblue Oct 2017 #5
You deserve major support for cilla4progress Oct 2017 #7
I used to visit her at my son's house (where she lived) angstlessk Oct 2017 #8
Woah cilla4progress Oct 2017 #9
I suspect??? angstlessk Oct 2017 #10
Typical Bayard Oct 2017 #11
So you think every attempt is for attention? angstlessk Oct 2017 #12
Not at all Bayard Oct 2017 #13
suicide attempts are not due to lack of attention Skittles Oct 2017 #14

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
2. That was when I cut my wrists...when I took sleeping pills..
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 07:50 PM
Oct 2017

she knew nothing...except I threw up!

Then there was the 50 or so aspirin...and my boyfriend spent the next few hours walking me about.

And that was before I was 16

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
6. I agree, when a mother finds attention a way to abuse
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 08:08 PM
Oct 2017

the child suffers...

I recall a black crinoline (slip)and I went downstairs and danced around at age??? 3-4?

Who serialized me?

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
8. I used to visit her at my son's house (where she lived)
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 08:19 PM
Oct 2017

and every weekend when I was going to leave, she tried to make me feel guilty for leaving....

One day I decided to never see her again, as the guilt would be the same as leaving her.

My son wanted the room she inhabited and my sister came and took her and her bank account out of state..when my son visited another country

The first thing my sister told me when she said my mother was dead, was that because she was on day care, they did not have to do an autopsy???

My mother hated my sisters kids...oh well!


angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
10. I suspect???
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 09:03 PM
Oct 2017

My mother hated my sisters kids...when my sister brought my mother to my house to say goodbye, my sister was taking her out of state to her house...she (my mother) was incoherent???

It had been a couple of months since I had seen my mother, but I would never guess she was totally incapacitated?

My son just wanted the room my mother lived in...

I think my mother's last years were horrid...not my fault...but I wish I could have helped her.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
12. So you think every attempt is for attention?
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 09:36 PM
Oct 2017

I was in the bathroom with my wrists bleeding, though not fatally...and my sister had to break down the door, cause my mother dismissed my suicide attempt as an attempt for attention.

I admit I did not want to die...and I DID want my mother's attention...which she denied me.



Bayard

(24,145 posts)
13. Not at all
Sun Oct 15, 2017, 09:45 PM
Oct 2017

I said, when someone actually dies from suicide, no one says it was because they were just looking for attention.

And I have been there, done that, spent a week in ICU.

Skittles

(159,374 posts)
14. suicide attempts are not due to lack of attention
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 02:23 AM
Oct 2017

they are the result of emotional turmoil, someone whose coping skills are broken

someone who threatens suicide or attempts suicide is in immediate need of psychiatric care

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