Posted on 01/22/2024 3:14:59 PM PST by chickenlips
A member of the US Army with a popular fitness and fashion account on Instagram has died by suicide, devastated friends shared on Saturday.
Staff Sgt. Michelle Young, 34, took her own life, leaving behind her 12-year-old daughter, whom friends described as “her whole world” in a heart-wrenching post on GoFundMe.
“Michelle was a beautiful soul, an amazing friend, a single mother, a soldier, and is proof you never know what someone is going through or what demons they may be fighting,” friend Sarah Maine wrote on the page.
“We will never fill the gaps in our hearts and will always be left with questions,” she added.
Young had served in the Army for 16 years, first enlisting when she was about 18 years old. During that time, she completed two tours in Afghanistan, the Daily Mail reported.
Just days before news of her death broke, Young had posted a birthday message on Instagram for her daughter, Gracie.
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I had a friend who drove to the spot in the road where his son shot himself 6 years before, and painted the headliner of his truck. Leaving a wife, and family to ponder the why. They had a memorial, I wasn’t invited, but wouldn’t have gone if I were.
She was destroyed, sold all they had and moved to Texas to be with her Daughter. My youngest daughter helped her through it all.
Selfish + vindictive. That is all I could think of.
I haven’t walked in her shoes so who am I to judge? I feel sorry for her daughter and I hope she doesn’t follow her Mother’s path.
How sad
That is why this story doesn’t smell right. If her daughter was her world, she would not have taken her own life and leave her daughter in that position.
Something is very amiss with this story.
My background on her shows her as an Arizona National Guard member, NOT ‘US Army’.
Horrible way to treat a daughter several days after her birthday:
“Michelle Young decided to take her own life by committing suicide days after her daughter’s 12th birthday.
Young had posted a heartfelt post with a picture perfect moment on her daughter, Gracie’s birthday days before taking the shocking step. In her post, Young captioned, “Happy birthday to the sweetest girl I’ve ever known,” adding “She’s a force to be reckoned with, she’s witty, ambitious, kind, compassionate, intelligent, hardworking, hilarious, and selfless,” describing Gracie.”
The whole thing stinks.
This is our military?
Nope. I would have never left my 12 year old daughter as an orphan.
I had a store manager that was taking a drug to stop smoking. He had to stop because he told me that he was having serious suicidal thoughts, which he never had before. Let’s call the store manager “Bob.” Bob told me that when taking that drug, he started having vivid dreams. The dreams were so vivid that he did not feel like he was getting rest. Then as he took more medicine, his brain was telling him that the easiest way to stop smoking was to kill himself- it would solve everything. At about the third day of having suicidal thoughts, he decided that he wasn’t going crazy- it had to be the drugs. He stopped taking the drugs and within 36 hours he was back to normal. Bob told me that the suicidal thoughts were seductive. So if a doctor approved medicine could make a normal guy suicidal, imagine what a brain chemical imbalance could do to a person.
“She’s a force to be reckoned with, she’s witty, ambitious, kind, compassionate, intelligent, hardworking, hilarious, and selfless,” describing Gracie.”
Sadly, maybe not anymore after her mother offed herself.
The importance of sleep, is underated and barely mentioned by doctors re the nomadic SARS-2-CoV.
I wish someone would have introduced her to Jesus. Pray for the daughter.
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