then was quickly withdrawn, but you can still read the front of it by glancing down the blogs I follow on my sidebar. Last thing I knew Anna was bingeing out on heroin, had a homeless Hispanic man staying at her parents' house while they were away (recipe for disaster). And she was talking about going back on methadone, although she had already cleaned herself up in a minor cold turkey. It's not at all unusual for people to go 100% clean and then decide they just can't cope without a tiny dose of daily methadone or Subutex. Which is why when I finally get to that position I don't care what the clinic say, I'm buying the one milligram of methadone or Subutex on the street and dividing it into micro-doses myself. If it takes six months to reduce from one milligram to nothing, I'll do it. But I'm not following some run-for-the-convenience-of-the-staff-and-for-the-glory-of-their-statistics clinics's schedule.Anyway I don't know what to think now. If you read Anna's mother's Facebook pages there's reference to Anna's book dated yesterday yet no mention of her death which is supposed to have occurred on the 16th. Which just does not fit.
I haven't heard anything from Anna for over 2 weeks. My feeling is that she is alive and unwell. But I do not know. COME BACK ANNA!
Maybe Anna does have the oddest family in history. Their daughter dies and they carry on posting away as if nothing happened. Maybe Anna is just trying to sell her book. So I'll do her one more favour: her UK Amazon link is here; the US Amazon link is here.
Here's what I wrote yesterday:~~
NOBODY SEEMS TO BELIEVE Anna Grace really is dead. Just because the "friend" who posted on her blog sounds a lot and punctuates a lot (brackets without spaces) like Anna doesn't mean the situation isn't true. She could have posted that a week ago and instructed Blogger to hold on to it and post it up yesterday, when it appeared.
This ghost post showed up: MyTrafford Dashboard: "Title: I Hate Myself and Want to Die Subtitle: Project ID: 297745 Author Name: Anna Young (edit profile) Pen Name: Anna Young Genre: F...
it means a post appeared and was subsequently deleted. Which still doesn't mean Anna is alive. The "friend" could have posted this.
Oh I don't fucking know. ANNA GRACE COME BACK!
I can't believe I'm doing this, shouting at the dead: COME BACK ANNA!
Because if she isn't dead she's not going to WANT to "come back" now. Oh Anna why did you do it? I'm checking the public records office for Green Bay, Wisconsin because I just want to know. None of the online searches I've so far done have shown up anything, which isn't really surprising because it could easily take the relevant government departments a month or more to process paperwork.
In this country a death certificate is usually issued straight away. Nearest kin are called upon to identify the body. Any case where illicit drugs may be involved, or suicide is suspected goes forward to the coroner's court. It's not uncommon for the body to stay in cold storage for a few weeks if the actual cause of death is uncertain. Example: my friend Lucky was a long term (30 year +) heroin addict but died suddenly probably of multiple system failure, not drug overdose. She stayed in the fridge for at least three weeks.
O I can't believe I'm writing all this about Anna. Can anyone who knows anything please get in touch. I want to know for sure now.
Brown County Medical Examiner:
http://www.co.brown.wi.us/departments/?department=a8040c9a2d7d&subdepartment=314cc7fc2b2d
Wisconsin Death Certificates:
http://www.atozdeaths.com/usa/wi
Social Security Death Index Interactive Search
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
this is useless. no Anna Grace Young but no Juan Lopez born +/- 5 years from 1983 and dead last year!
Anna Grace's Dad's Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002265318789&sk=wall
Anna Grace's Mum's Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sfrm=1#!/profile.php?id=1389806408&sk=wall
Anna Grace Young's own Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1523894330&ref=ts
I don't know what to think. Yesterday I was upset, today I'm walking away.
If you really are doing this to draw attention to your book Anna congratulations: attention drawn. But I really can't believe you would do this. Because whether or not you're living and breathing and hiding offline, you're dead to me.
Anna Grace Young 1983-2011
Rest In Peace
Sorry Gleds. I've been following your blog and anna's for a year or so. I don't believe she is dead. As a former user I don't even believe she ever used heroin. I never believed it. She had an infatuation with heroin, but the way she wrote about it made it obvious to me that she had no experience with actually using, let alone being addicted. I am sorry for your loss though. It seemed like she really cared about you and if she has done his as a hoax, she must be seriously ill. I guess we'll all find out soon.Jason
ReplyDeleteGleds,
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you'd found anything out. I was so upset this morning, upon reading her blog, I was crying at work.
If this is a trick or a lie, I'm done with Anna, and I love her like a sister. I truly do. It would be an unbelievably cruel stunt to pull on you and I, particularly. I know you love her, too.
Let me know if you find anything else out, please.
Love you,
SB
Gleds, I don't know what the truth is. But if she is alive, then this was a cruel and selfish thing to do. Just take care of yourself. I suspect that the truth will come out soon.
ReplyDeleteJ: I do believe she used heroin and Dilaudid at some point. I got the impression she stayed quite a long time in the treatment system, had minor relapses and went back to methadone/whatever.
ReplyDeleteShe had a dr prescribing her Adderall, which is just dexedrine or speed (plain amphetamine) by another name. Which is fucking ridiculous for somebody with bipolar disorder. I asked my shrink about this and he said it would probably make her "really manic" and I said no she's depressed and he wasn't surprised by that either. The very same neurotransmitters her antidepressants were meant to boost were being drained away by that Adderall before the antidepressants could get to them. So I'm not surprised she was miserable.
She didn't seem to have a particularly clear idea of life outside her experience, so I don't think she would have been able to write convincingly about opiates if she had never tried them.
She did seem to have a strange obsession with them. Most people who are that obsessed just USE USE USE. When they stop using the obsession turns into revulsion. It has to, else you'd just use whenever you had a chance. Which by her account, she didn't do.
I had a kind of fascination with heroin before I ever took it. But it was a fascination with forbidden fruit. I went to college right in the middle of the Rave Generation where drug experimentation suddenly became the thing. Cocaine went from a hard drug to a party drug. Heroin never lost its taboo, which I thought was hypocrisy, so I tried it as soon as I got access to it and did it in secret. But this fascination factor quickly died away to the reality of addiction: which to me was like needing food. Nothing much more exciting than that.
I really don't understand what the hell she has done. I have a feeling she is severely disturbed and might even be in hospital. I suppose I would forgive her, but I'm not very happy with her.
I knew she told lots of little lies because a lot of details she gave just didn't add or match up. But I never picked her up on them because I felt she was a troubled soul and I also felt people treated her a bit unfairly. People who had no idea what it felt like to be in full-blown depression, let alone addicted to 2 or 3 classes of drugs (sleeping meds as well as speed and the opiates she talked so much about)... ANNA YOU STUPID COW COME BACK TO US
SB: I have heard nothing. I thought she might get in touch if I emailed her over and over but nothing
Syd: truth will out. Eventually :-(
Anna will come back with more lies.
ReplyDeleteShe make up excuse thats all.
The book is most impordant then you and her freinds.Sorry I say this ma I know she like money.
Put yurself first.I know you have broken heart.
I would like to know what she is actually doing. Last she put, she had a stranger living in her parents' house. Then her book came out. She said it sucked, and to be fair the publishers really should have edited the manuscript. They obviously didn't even read it through properly which really isn't fair and means they didn't give her what she paid them for. All they really did was get the book printed, which she could have done herself for less money. It only costs a few dollars to get an ISBN number... Anna why did you do that. You really are SILLY.
ReplyDeleteJust leaving a blog behind isn't enough to promote a book. You need to go to the mass media and give interviews about your beautiful dead daughter... all that stuff. Even if TV weren't interested, radio would feature something like that, if the family could give a half-decent interview. Things like that snowball from there. Most bestsellers are created by word of mouth more than anything else. Or the fact that the author has a fanbase of millions. How many people even know about Anna? Maybe 100 in the whole world. That's not enough to sell a book. I can't believe she would take an idea like that seriously, let alone do it. Anna come back to us. I can't believe you would do this.
ReplyDeleteworry no more.
ReplyDeleteShe is alive & sick as ever . . .Sorry Gledwood, I know you care, I am just so so so angry. sorry.
with love
x
Have you thought about asking her parents through facebook?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they knew of her blog
I know many people with bi-polar (myself included)and none of us are so devious as to fake their death, sit back, watch comments come in and maybe have a good laugh.
ReplyDeleteIn my book Anna is a loser who "laughs at your pain" as she had written.
You seem to blame her evil as part of her illness which is an insult to honest people living with bi-polar disorder.
If Anna is still alive and just trying to draw attention to her book I think that's really a sick thing to do to her friends. If this is the case I'd dump her Gleds.
ReplyDeleteI got warning bells ringing in my head every time i read a post by "ad ri anna".....?just who is she and why is her english so abominable its almost a joke?First i thought it was gledwoods alter ego(one of many...)But then i shifted and thought it may be herself..?I got a very suspicious mind so apologies if she's for real...And gledwood,this is weird and i'm sorry she messed with you xxxx Annie
ReplyDeleteditto anon
ReplyDeleteit is an insult to people with mental health probs . . .evil is not part of it.
This was an evil heartless stunt . .pretty much as soon as GW said she was dead to him whether alive or not , , ,she reared her head.
It hurt a lot of people, gave me sick nightmares about my brother having not really killed himself and coming home . . I awoke utterly distressed as I'm sure many of you did, no-one more than Gledwood. She has posted now with a sorry 4 GW and a fuck off to the rest of us . . .nice!
I know loads of you care about her, personally I never did, as I saw through the whole pile of shit from the start and had no time for it.
She careth not a jot about anyone but herself. Yes she may have MH probs . .haven't we all?
there aint no excuse for these ugly,selfish,evil fucking lies.
she is alive go to her blog . . .make her day
x
ps. I didn't disbeleive it because "last post was poorly written/spaced/spelt like Anna's writing"
ReplyDeleteI disbeleived it because she has always been, still is, and I expect will be forever a fucking selfish heartless liar.
Suddenly in her new post the "latino lover" "toy boy" "ex of her best friend" who she was so keen to get into bed with, at the expense of a life long friendship, is now . . ."that homeless guy" . . o fucking classic manipulative bitch . . .she reckoned he was clean (subbies) then he holding a store up?? it aint worth thinking about no more. I cant . . .it is wasted emotion . .I've been angry since I read it last night. I'm just sad for the people who did & still do care about her . . .because one thing for sure . .she no care about you lot & thats sad :-(
x
Gledwood, I hope you're serious about being done with her. Anna clearly doesn't care at all about you, and you don't need someone so without scruples and even the barest shred of common decency making you worry and fret.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance to bad rubbish!
Take care of yourself, Gleds!