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Claudia Conway is so clearly experiencing suicidal ideation because of her mother’s abuse and I don’t even know what we can do for her, she needs real material resources and serious help from adults and I am concerned she has no one in her life who will give that to her.
I want to speak to this specific experience as a former teen who attempted suicide because of my mother’s intense abuse — you do not know what it’s like to feel TRAPPED in that situation and like you will never escape and this person will always have something over you.
I was 16, Claudia Conway’s age, when I attempted to kill myself for the first time. I don’t think I actually wanted to *die* but I wanted to not be experiencing my mother’s abuse, and it felt like there was no other way out because NO ONE would help me.
I fortunately had good friends who found me in time, and took care of me, and a wonderful social worker at school who worked tirelessly to help me for the next few years until I could leave and escape 3,000 miles away because my teachers PAID for my plane ticket to escape.
I say this in part as a reminder that material resources and help are crucial for abuse victims and survivors, especially teens and children whose parents are abusing them and keeping them silent and abuse hidden using financial + parental means like in Claudia Conway’s situation
I was MISERABLE trying to slog through the next nearly two years after attempting suicide at 16, but I could only make it through because I had support. I cannot emphasize enough how much we all owe it to Claudia Conway and ANY abused teen to help them escape and find healing.
and if you yourself are a teen reading this and you’re experiencing parental abuse or abuse from a family member, I am so so sorry and you do not deserve that and I see you and love you and will help however I can, if you want.
