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Wish I Would Have Done Things Differently

7 Aug 2023 · 0 min

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A short personal reflection (YouTube video) by Amber Hollingsworth in which the speaker expresses regret and a wish for more skills and understanding in responding to her brother’s long struggle with addiction. The speaker recounts that her brother died from alcohol-related causes at age 54 and describes family pressure from their parents during his illness.

Wish that I had more skills and more understanding. When my brother was ill with addiction, and my brother passed away from drinking, and he was under tremendous pressure all the time from my mom and my dad. Like, you know, we're still hopeful. There's still, you know, hope as long as he's still alive. But by the last two years that he was living, he died at 54. Should have been a long time ago, but I wish that I had been able to respond to his addiction.