When We Stop Blaming Our Parents…

Francesca O. Giuliano
5 min readJan 10, 2019

on growing up with a mentally ill parent and learning to abandon the victim mentality

I love my dad. He is a successful lawyer, taught me how to ride a bike, made me curious about travelling and diversity, shared with me his passion for culture, adventures, good books, and nature. He’s also one of the people who’ve hurt me the most, though he never meant to. My dad started struggling with mental health in…

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Francesca O. Giuliano

she/her. searching for meaning, freedom, justice... love at last and always.