How Can I Cheer My Dad Up?
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When he was 12 he was seconds to death from being suffocated with a pillow from his father, his dad tried to kill him numerous of times, he watched his best friend be hit by a van and died, he watched his father abuse his mother, his father has had 8 wife’s, when his parents divorced she finally got a new husband, after growing to trust him 5 years later he left to go to Germany and he hasn’t seen him for 20 years now no one knows where he is, his father broke his sisters jaw, his father killed his dog and her puppies, he was mentally abusive, when we went to his house the other day where he grew up (his mother still lives there) he was saying how depressed he was, when he lived there he was scared of everything, his brother was a drug dealer, there house was being broken into at least once a month the door was being knocked down, he grew up in a poor ghetto area of Memphis which is riddled with crime, His dad is a Muslim, he was born Christian but converted and made my dad convert to one, and my dad changed his surname he almost killed him.
His father scares the living day lights out of me, I shake when I’m around him, he will shout at me about anything, he has evil eyes, and just glares at me, I feel uncomfortable. He kicked my dog once and broke his rib,
He just came back from travelling Jerusalem, Israel and Morocco with his new young Jewish wife who is just using him for money and it was great for a year with out him, now his back he always forces us to go to restaurants with him and stuff.
My dad really hangs on to his past and gets nervous talking about this, he shakes talking about it. He is very heavy on drugs and alcohol and has bad liver problems and stress, how can I cheer him up? he refuses to get a therapist
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Answer by Chase Elrod
First since hes heavy on drugs and alcohol he needs to go to rehab after that he really needs to go to a therapist if you can make him but first get him off the drugs and alcohol. A therapist will help with all his problems and probably one of the only best ways you can help him.
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