IP RESILENCE GLOBAL MAGAZINE
CHLOE LINDSEY
step dads gun case, went outside because I thought well I don’t want my mom or brother to have to see that but I just couldn’t help the amount of loneliness I felt inside - I went outside had the gun up to my head, crying, scared and unsure and then all of a sudden a fierce sound of at least 15 voices told me to stop and turn the gun (I was on 10 acres of our own land with no one that close to see where I was or why I was there). I snapped out of it and went inside, put the gun away, fell to my knees when then
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My name is Chloe Lindsey, I am 32 years of age and I have been through things physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually in that very short amount of time that most don’t know how to deal with, let alone, heal through. By the age of 28, I had gone through losing both parents, my dad, when I was 13 choked to death on a deadly combination of prescription drugs and I broke down the bathroom door and pulled him out and tried to revive him. My uncle committed suicide a year and a half later. I was suicidal for years myself after that, in a dark place the last time I truly attempted I was 16 years old. Mom at this point had «Psychosis with Bipolar tendencies» she was in and out of psych wards to try to regulate her «hallucinations» and sometimes because spiritually she felt she would be safer in there while fighting her spiritual battles. My brother was in school (I take care of my brother who has cerebral Palsy and is wheelchair bound and have most of our lives). When I was 16 my mom was in the psych ward, my brother in school, I got in my ex
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