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[โ€“] frunch@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've met plenty of others that have seen mental illness wreak havoc on their families. Sure my experience is anecdotal but wtf else can i draw experience from? Make all my decisions based on probabilities and just hope for the best? Congrats on having a bunch of normal functioning family, sounds nice ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -3 points 7 months ago

wtf else can i draw experience from

Guess you never had stats explained to you?

My first message was general. It doesn't apply to your case? Fair enough, you're in a minority. It doesn't make me wrong and it's not an attack against you and you can push the reflection a bit further and tell yourself "Although it's not the case with me, most people are close to others in their family so I guess in most cases it's a form of support when aging that people don't get if they don't have kids."