On exactly this day, 21 years ago today, I found my mother 9-days deceased. She had taken her own life with a combination of Alprazolam and Thioridazine. She had over 300 pills in her stomach that were completely undigested. She was 49 years old. She had been prescribed those medications for “depression” around her 44th birthday after she began having violent mood swings, insomnia, weight gain, hair loss, frustrating issues with repeated bladder and kidney infections/kidney stones, and overall instability. A few months prior to her death, she became totally isolated – and unknown to her family she’d stopped taking both the Alprazolam and Thioridazine on her own. During that time she purchased her medications, but saved them and eventually used several months’ worth of both to take her own life. Along the way, she also chose her casket, planned her service, picked out her music and paid for it all out of a savings account we were unaware she had. It was noted during her autopsy that ...
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