"Don't add to the population, don't subtract from the population, don't make the news." Thanks, r/prison, you may have saved a life on the outside.

I have hemiplegic migraines from the latest thing my mother did - involuntary commitment - in a cycle of revenge my father started when he set me up to fail at math cards and spanked me when I was 5. Yesterday I held surgical scissors in front of the mirror in the bathroom and thought about it. She was in the other room, and he's out of town, reportedly exploding at her over SMS. Then I remembered your advice. I put the scissors down and then back in the medicine cabinet. Also Alux and Elon Musk helped by saying holding grudges isn't worth it. Also, would have been contemptible and weak, since she's family. No one knows.

Edit: upvoted, I had a change of heart last night and decided to delete this, reasoning that the "may" created ambiguity and thus conflict, but I guess the English language is clearer than I thought.