Did My Dad Have Amnesia Or Is He A Liar? (Family Secrets Documentary) | Real Stories
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Length: 84min 20sec (5060 seconds)
Published: Thu Mar 04 2021
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What a monster. He literally crushed his family. He could have just left. But nah... He probably liked causing them pain.
Well I think this guy had a very severe mental Illness. I know many will disagree with me on that. It doesn’t make him not responsible though. He just wasn’t interested in getting better. I think his state was a combination of his mental illness plus his own moral failings, lack of character and choices. Because even the docs said he could get better if he wanted to.
This was a really good but slow and thought-provoking doc on the lengths people will go to avoid shame. I don’t think he’s a fundamentally lazy man, he obviously tried really hard to bring some new sources of income to the family but just couldn’t figure out how to make it work. So instead of seeing the repercussions of that and face the shame albeit temporary it would bring on him and his family he escaped by creating his own reality.
The biggest person he fooled was himself. Life is full of abundance and possibility, and as long as one has family they treasure and that supports you anything is possibly. Clearly this man didn’t see it that way and thought he’d reached the end of his path, he committed virtual suicide and the consequences of his choices caught up with him as he stared into the void that was the last part of his life and probably realized how he’d screwed himself, after all this mans greatest fear was shame and in the end he turned that into a monster that defeated him, hence why how fast he aged at the end. His family even said it would’ve been better had he just died completely... he turned into a symbol in a way of that which he feared most, helplessness and shame, a feat someone so severely mentally ill with depersonalization could “accomplish”.
I do believe he had a choice, absolutely, to get better.
So sad for his family... and for him as well. I wish people didn’t lose hope so quickly.