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Addiction & Recovery

irisblue

(32,967 posts) Sat Jul 6, 2019, 03:58 PM Jul 2019

Depression and Alcohol kills another one of us. You wanna talk sister/ brother I'm here [View all]

Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) Tweeted:
So grateful for flood of kindness in wake of my brother’s death. Survivors convinced me to include in his obituary that Chuck ended his life. The secrecy only compounds grief, and perpetuates the shame too often associated with addiction and depression. https://t.co/fGcBi0mZSN https://t.co/HOjBIdHbfG

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Depression and Alcohol kills another one of us. You wanna talk sister/ brother I'm here [View all] irisblue Jul 2019 OP

This is sad. Thank you for making yourself available to people Iris. Maraya1969 Jul 2019 #1

I've been in AA since 2008 and have known too many people who have died Rhiannon12866 Jul 2019 #2