So last night, my Dad got really plastered (he's a really bad alcoholic) and woke my brother up at one o'clock in the morning. He demanded that my brother--who doesn't even have a license yet--drive him to the gas station to get some cigarettes because he was out of them. Then when they got home, he forced my little brother to make food for him because he was too drunk and he couldn't figure out the stove. When my brother told him that it was the middle of the night and he was trying to sleep, my Dad just got really mad and told him,
'You should be doing these things for me, you know, because in six months I'm not going to be alive!'
This isn't the first time my Dad's done this, either. About four years or so ago, when my brother was too little to understand what was fully going on (He was ten and we kept him sheltered) my Dad went completely haywire and ran off in the middle of the night. The only things he took with him were a bottle of whiskey and a shotgun or a riffle, we're still not sure which. He called my Mom at three o'clock in the morning threatening to shoot himself. He was in a ditch somewhere along the highway, and the cops couldn't find him because he was in a good spot, I guess. He told my Mom that unless she got all of his siblings at our house in 3 hours, he'd shoot himself while on speaker phone, regardless of whether or not my brother and I were in the room and could hear it. We got all of my aunts and uncles to our house in the three hours, and my Dad went through a list that took two hours on the phone to get through, blaming everyone for everything. He had actually taken the time to write out suicide notes for all of us in the family---one for me, one for my brother (who never managed to see it, thank God) and one for my Mom, blaming her for everyhing too, saying that she was a witch and turned him into a suicidal jackass.
The reason I'm putting this post up is because I'm seriously worried about the wellbeing of my little brother. He's only sixteen, and he has no idea what's really going on. He was sheltered from everything that happened four years ago, all he knows is that Daddy went on a short fishing trip. He doesn't know that my father was suicidal. He called my mother last night hysterical, just crying his eyes out.
I don't know what to do, and I would really appreciate any advice someone could give me on what I can do to help.
'You should be doing these things for me, you know, because in six months I'm not going to be alive!'
This isn't the first time my Dad's done this, either. About four years or so ago, when my brother was too little to understand what was fully going on (He was ten and we kept him sheltered) my Dad went completely haywire and ran off in the middle of the night. The only things he took with him were a bottle of whiskey and a shotgun or a riffle, we're still not sure which. He called my Mom at three o'clock in the morning threatening to shoot himself. He was in a ditch somewhere along the highway, and the cops couldn't find him because he was in a good spot, I guess. He told my Mom that unless she got all of his siblings at our house in 3 hours, he'd shoot himself while on speaker phone, regardless of whether or not my brother and I were in the room and could hear it. We got all of my aunts and uncles to our house in the three hours, and my Dad went through a list that took two hours on the phone to get through, blaming everyone for everything. He had actually taken the time to write out suicide notes for all of us in the family---one for me, one for my brother (who never managed to see it, thank God) and one for my Mom, blaming her for everyhing too, saying that she was a witch and turned him into a suicidal jackass.
The reason I'm putting this post up is because I'm seriously worried about the wellbeing of my little brother. He's only sixteen, and he has no idea what's really going on. He was sheltered from everything that happened four years ago, all he knows is that Daddy went on a short fishing trip. He doesn't know that my father was suicidal. He called my mother last night hysterical, just crying his eyes out.
I don't know what to do, and I would really appreciate any advice someone could give me on what I can do to help.
December 21st, 2009 at 10:21am