If Tyler doesn't love Tyler there will be no reasonable relationship in the future, loneliness and discontent will prevail... Helen Pittman remembers her son's early years as cheerful ones. His father's death in 2010 hit him particularly hard, what Helen Pittman and his sisters called "the tip of the iceberg." Helen Pittman watched, tinged with hope: Tyler was outlining concrete plans, and putting in shower curtains, taking steps into the future. Struggling daily with his sickness and his addictions, Tyler Pittman fought to keep that hope alive within him during his lifetime.

Source: CBC News June 13, 2020 09:22 UTC