Loss of mother leads to selfdestructive behavior from "summary" of Wild by Cheryl Strayed
When my mother died, I felt the ground give way beneath me. I was only twenty-two, and I suddenly found myself adrift in a world that no longer made sense. The loss of her presence left a hole in my heart that nothing could fill. I was consumed by grief and a sense of profound emptiness. In the absence of my mother's love and guidance, I turned to self-destructive behavior as a way to cope with my pain. I sought solace in drugs, sex, and reckless behavior, anything to numb the overwhelming sense of loss that threatened to consume me. I was lost and searching for something to fill the void left by my mother's death. I realize now that my self-destructive behavior was a misguided attempt to fill the emptiness in my soul. I was grasping at anything that would make me feel alive again, even if it meant putting myself in dangerous situations. I was running away from the pain of losing my mother, bu...
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