Wow--this is terrible to say. My mother was horribly abusive with bipolar disorder (not able to be successfully treated) & an alcoholic. Apparently when I was born (I was an emergency birth--preemie--as they could not hear a heart beat & thought I was dead & my mother being a severe diabetic was not expected to live either). So surprise--we both lived, but she never got tired of telling me how she wished I had died. She did end up committing suicide successfully after many, many attempts when I was 15.

It was such a relief to have her gone...