A Son and His Mom Laugh Through Darkness by Anna Sale | Audiobook

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Title: A Son and His Mom Laugh Through Darkness
Author: Anna Sale, Bex Montz, Katie Ryan
Format: Original Recording
Length: 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-28-16
Publisher: Death, Sex, and Money, WNYC Studios
Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Summary:
[Contains explicit content] In 2014, after Bex Montz dropped out college, transitioned and got sober, he tried to kill himself. Before losing consciousness, he called 911. When he woke up, the first thing he saw was his mom, Katie Ryan, sitting in the corner of his hospital room.
Bex told me his story earlier this year in our episode about near-death experiences. He's living with his mom in San Francisco, and soon after I moved to California, I asked Bex if I could catch up with him in personand meet his mom.
In our follow-up conversation, I learned about the depression that Bex has struggled with since he was a kid and, as his mom told me, that his extended family didn't know Bex was a suicide survivor until the podcast episode came out this spring. Bex said he couldn't believe it. "I've been mentally ill since I was like 13 years old," he said. "Jesus Christ, I hope there's a suicide attempt in there somewhere! Or else, I'm like, what have I been doing with the last couple of years, you know?"
This prompted Bex and his mom to burst into laughter.
This is how they talk about all they've gone through as a family, with brutal honesty and cutting humorwhether they're describing Bex's father's sudden death, Bex's ongoing depression, or his gender transition in his 20s. "These gender issues are, like, the smallest problems we've faced together," his mom Katie described. "They're miniscule, for me, compared to the mental health issues."
Those issues have made parenting Bex difficult, he freely admits, both when he was a kid and now that he's an adult. "I want to try to figure out all this shit by myself," he told me. "That's my ideal."

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