Help Michelle- Tragic house fire
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I will always remember my father as the man who taught me to fish, play sports, and enjoy the outdoors. Unfortunately, my father also struggled with accepting and managing his mental illness, which resulted in tragedy. Deep down my father always loved us, even to the very end – I have to believe that.
A month ago my mother left my father due to physical, mental, and other types of abuse. My father did not respond to this well, refusing to take his medications and becoming increasingly paranoid, and the results were horrific. The smallest things would set him off, and he would go into an aggressive rage. I removed the guns from his house after an incident where he threatened to kill himself and several others. My mother was no longer safe with him, and we had to hide her away. She was reassigned to a new position at her job that made $60k less than her previous job. My father began to call us kids and make violent threats toward us and our mom. He wanted to track down our mother, but we did everything we could to protect her. As a family, my siblings and I decided to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital in hopes the doctors could bring back the dad we loved and remembered. They released him after 11 days, deeming that he was no longer a risk to himself or others.
It quickly became apparent that this was not the case. He was adamant about trying to track down our mother, and the more we tried to protect her, the more paranoid he became that no one loved him anymore. Just two weeks after his release from the hospital tragedy struck. Due to the mental illness, our childhood home was burnt to ground and our father’s life was lost.
Now we have found out that before our childhood memories went up in flames, my dad reached out to his life insurance broker. My dad’s final wish was that his own wife and children not get any of his life insurance pay out. The new beneficiary is refusing to give any of the money to us, leaving my widowed mother, the strongest woman you will ever meet, with over $100k in debt. Three of us kids are recent college grads and the youngest is still in college, we have no money to help my mother pay any of his extensive bills, let alone a funeral.
If you read our story and it urges you to give, I cannot express how much that means for our family. We are trying to raise $15k to help make payments toward the wreckage and debt we have inherited, and every dollar helps. If you are not able to give, I just ask that you keep my family in your thoughts and prayers. We loved our father very much, and we know it was not him who brought about the tragedy to our family but rather his untreated mental illness. Please, if you or anyone you know is living with mental illness, shower them in love, make sure you take every chance you can to tell them what they mean to you, and get them the help that they need.
Link to news story: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article216215450.html
A month ago my mother left my father due to physical, mental, and other types of abuse. My father did not respond to this well, refusing to take his medications and becoming increasingly paranoid, and the results were horrific. The smallest things would set him off, and he would go into an aggressive rage. I removed the guns from his house after an incident where he threatened to kill himself and several others. My mother was no longer safe with him, and we had to hide her away. She was reassigned to a new position at her job that made $60k less than her previous job. My father began to call us kids and make violent threats toward us and our mom. He wanted to track down our mother, but we did everything we could to protect her. As a family, my siblings and I decided to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital in hopes the doctors could bring back the dad we loved and remembered. They released him after 11 days, deeming that he was no longer a risk to himself or others.
It quickly became apparent that this was not the case. He was adamant about trying to track down our mother, and the more we tried to protect her, the more paranoid he became that no one loved him anymore. Just two weeks after his release from the hospital tragedy struck. Due to the mental illness, our childhood home was burnt to ground and our father’s life was lost.
Now we have found out that before our childhood memories went up in flames, my dad reached out to his life insurance broker. My dad’s final wish was that his own wife and children not get any of his life insurance pay out. The new beneficiary is refusing to give any of the money to us, leaving my widowed mother, the strongest woman you will ever meet, with over $100k in debt. Three of us kids are recent college grads and the youngest is still in college, we have no money to help my mother pay any of his extensive bills, let alone a funeral.
If you read our story and it urges you to give, I cannot express how much that means for our family. We are trying to raise $15k to help make payments toward the wreckage and debt we have inherited, and every dollar helps. If you are not able to give, I just ask that you keep my family in your thoughts and prayers. We loved our father very much, and we know it was not him who brought about the tragedy to our family but rather his untreated mental illness. Please, if you or anyone you know is living with mental illness, shower them in love, make sure you take every chance you can to tell them what they mean to you, and get them the help that they need.
Link to news story: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article216215450.html
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Brittany Fairchild
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Matthews, NC
