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YOUR MONTHLY MUST-HAVE DELIVERY Never miss an issue THE MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO MENTAL HEALTH SEPT 2021 £5.99 £71.88 Now £59.99! It's about time Could journeying through your past help form a better future? DEBUNKED 8 MYTHS ABOUT SELF-HARM EVERYDAY ROMANCE Find joy in the simple things HAPPIFUL.COM | £5.99 09 9 772514 373017 In it together What really happens at group therapy? PERSONALITY TESTS | SICK-DAY GUILT | THE ZINE SCENE ISSUES FREE Subscribe for a year and get Happiful delivered straight to your door Pay for 10 issues, get two issues completely FREE Plus postage is now included! * • We’re proud to say that our magazine is 100% recyclable • For every tree used to print our magazine, we ensure two are planted • Supporting our print magazine allows us to distribute a free digital edition – ensuring anyone who needs help can access our articles, without financial barriers *UK mainland and NI only. Additional charges may apply for postage elsewhere. For orders to the EU please visit happiful.newsstand.co.uk Prices and benefits are correct at the time of printing. For full terms and conditions, please visit happiful.com. 36 | September 2021 | happiful.com
true story Bringing the walls down Following the deaths of both his parents, Jason felt immense pressure to be ‘the man of the house’, and to bottle up his emotions. But, with time, he discovered the healing power of vulnerability Writing | Jason Wood What is your most vivid childhood memory? Mine is from 15 May 1997. It was a chilly spring day in Chicagoland. The sky was painted an abstract portrait of greys, whites, and yellows. The home, where glorious memories were once made, had now been converted into a makeshift hospice. My dad, my hero, lay in a hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness. He had only been sick for a few months, but the end was near. The cancer had ravaged his body, much like how this event would eat away at me for years to come. I arrived home from school and came to his bedside. I was able to hold his hand one last time as he whispered, “I love you, Jason.” His body, yellow from jaundice, looked like a fragment of the man I once knew. This was my last memory with him. He breathed his final breath a few minutes later, and life changed forever. That is the memory that defines my childhood. It quickly trumped the joyful ones of holidays and fishing trips. My hero, my innocence, and my naivety died that day. “You’re the man of the house now,” he said just a few weeks prior, as Mom and I left the hospital. At 11-years-old, I needed to take care of Mom, who was chronically ill herself. My childhood was over. I needed to be an adult. The top priority was making sure Mom would be OK. To do so, I put up a front. I began to mask my inner fears and feelings because I could not appear weak. I started to lose touch with who I was, but chalked it up to just growing up under special circumstances. Fast forward to 2005, and it felt like my life was a terrible rerun. Mom, my last pillar, slept in a hospital room full of beeping machines and rattled breathing. After two successful battles with cancer, she was about to lose this one. I was only 19 – what the hell was I supposed to do? I was not prepared to be an adult yet. The wounds from Dad’s death were still fresh. I held her frail hand, she reminded me to let the dog out, and then she joined Dad. I was alone, really alone. My siblings had turned on me. They seemed like the enemy now. There was an age gap in our family, and I was the youngest by 15 years. They did not approve of my new party lifestyle. I didn’t approve either, but it was the only way to feel somewhat my age and escape the pain I felt. I faced eviction, arrest, a nasty estate battle, and a few dead-end jobs in the aftermath. I felt broken, I felt useless, but above all, I hurt. >>> happiful.com | September 2021 | 37
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