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Dear fellow
community members…
I am writing this letter to you with guilt tinged hurt. Some of the things that I will say may point toward an unappreciative part of me. Please don't take my words out of context. My goal is to prevent others from experiencing the same mental, emotional and physical agony that I have to undergo… with a few details changed to protect mine and my sibling's identity, here is my story:
I grew up in a household with both parents sick. My father had a rare degenerative disease that eventually robbed him of his life at a very young age. My mother had and still does have multiple difficulties due to her morbidly obese condition. Whatever we were able to hide during my father's lifetime came out in the open after he passed away. I had been used to spending my entire being on putting up a brave front for the world, when he passed away the desire was gone. Along with his death came the death of my self worthiness too.
No words can describe the utterly shameful feeling of going to shul and seeing the walls plastered with […]
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