Because he was a deaf mute, he couldn't hear his own screaming. Then he'd wait till we were asleep and do it again, all night. He did the same thing to Mom, shaking her awake. All of us kids became adults real quick. I had to communicate for our parents.
Depression probably runs in our family.
My middle sister Jill went through it, and so did our father. Everyone on Dad's side of the family was alcoholic and abusive. His mother punctured his ear drums with large bobby pins, for instance, and his father went to prison for murder. Donna Lovins put me on full, permanent disability in 1987, the year after I started therapy with her. Until then, I was a welder, an auto mechanic.