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for_my_son
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 Posted - 11/02/2007 : 21:15:29
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My experience so far has taught me a lot about humanity, hope and appreciation for the small things.
As a working mother of 3, maintaining a home and mortgage, living in another country away from family, life can be difficult even without a 19 year old son being diagnosed with schizophrenia. As I stepped off on this journey to seek help and get my son well again, all the ordinary things that usually bother me, have faded into insignificance. Waiting in a queue no longer irks me, I am happy to step aside and let a mum with a restless child go before me, or an older person with a walking stick. Even parking my car, if someone races me to a car spot, they can have it if it is THAT important, I'll just go find another, even if it is further away - the extra walk will do me good. My favourite blouse shrunk in the dryer, boo hoo, I'll get another, it's just a top. The price of petrol has gone up AGAIN, hard luck, I need fuel to drive to work, I'm over it and pay the money...and so it goes. I have learnt much about appreciation.
I have interacted on here and elsewhere with people who have suffered, who have had unimaginable experiences, who have loved and lost, who have struggled for answers, and some who still struggle daily. Yet they have helped me and others with kindness, sincerity, advice, comfort, and by sharing what they know with someone they don't. I have learnt much about humanity.
As for my experiences to date with the caring of a loved one with this illness, I have transformed from someone filled with hopeless despair, to someone who is now proactively applying the advice, techniques, strategies, education, guidance and who now has found balance. I have learnt much about hope.
Where to from here? I have invited my 2 daughters to join me in assisting at a soup kitchen or shelter. We have put our names down as volunteers, and we hope - if they want us - to give a little bit of our time to help others who have less than we do. In the past, I have always thought selfishly, my spare time is incredibly precious, so I have justified my choices to indulge in my own recreational activities. However, after some self examination, there is more happiness in giving than in receiving.
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| stigmastomper (inactive)
Super Incredible Member (10000+ posts)
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 13:27:49
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welcome for my son.
i really like you already your are awesome.
i hope god clones you.
i have manic deppression,a thought disorder,
schizo-affective disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy other epilepsy,
learning disabilities ,brain damage, general and panic anxiety disorders. and im gifted because of that even while very seriously disabled. the truth is that the world is disabled has brainwashed each other silly, and iam disabled,dis-abled,dis"enabled", and very gifted in a world where goverments are trying to legislate our brainwaves and experiences.
here is a site i found today it may help you understand a few things your son says or it may not. but it will be enlightening for all here who visit this site. http://www.cognitive liberty.org or the center for cognitive liberty .org . i for one dont mind being called "nuts" but i will not be told iam by idots. or those controlled by idots etc abusing science nueroscience,and other goodies,for profit ,hate ,control. anyway i read what you wrote and your great! if i can ever help you im usually around or in bipolar general discussion. |
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What I have a learnt as a parent
