These are my personal opinions.

Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

This is going to sound like a bash.

And I don't mean it to sound like a bash because I have a certain respect for the dead.

Where am I going with this?

My stepfather died a couple months ago, I think, now.

And I talked about it on an episode back then.

And if you're not familiar, my stepfather was an alcoholic and he was with my mom for 40 years.

It was an abusive relationship in many ways.

And they got divorced eventually and he was still a very toxic energy, a very toxic

force in my entire family.

Everyone in my family was affected by him.

And he ended up dying from his alcoholism,

his liver failure, I think, and cancer. I mean, he developed all these ailments and diseases, and all because, or at least in my viewpoint, all because he was mistreating his body so badly.

So, you know, it caught up to him.

Now, he did live quite a long time.

He lived right up into his 70s.

So I'm just assuming he just had one of the most resilient bodies that a human could have to tolerate the excess level of abuse he did to himself.

And so that's neither here nor there.

But the reason I bring him up today is because when I talked about him, when I talked about his death, I had these feelings come up.

I had accepted that he was going to die many years ago and I had mixed feelings about

it because he's hurt people that I really care about.

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