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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 295950" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Shari </p><p> </p><p>The thought crossed my mind this morning after I read your post and I thought = you know, she's right. When I'm in difficult child, chaotic, tornadic, cyclonic, mudslide, omg someone please just throw me a frickin' bone mode - I hope no one really ever knows it, because I know there are so many greater problems out there than mine that day. But, the problems that I have that day are mine. It doesn't make them less difficult than anyone elses - it makes them mine. </p><p> </p><p>So when people come here and think - DO I contribute anything? Keep this in mind. I was feeling very low and I showed up here one day and read a newbie thread where someone was at the end of THEIR rope. I started to post - even wrote this fantastically long reply then erased it. I left it go and came back to it later and replied from my heart. I got a PM later that night before I went to bed and it wasn't anything over the moon, but it just said "Thanks - you knew exactly what it felt like to be me - I was suicidal, and now - I feel so much better just knowing someone else went through what I went through." - It was hard to read it. There I was- depressed, sad - and there was a person who was actually thinking about suicide with a child in their house. It changed how I viewed the boards usefulness. </p><p> </p><p>WE ALL can reach out - and we ALL can say something that we may think at the time is just something which is our day -to - day or something that we DID or have DONE - but people don't come here because they are HAPPY to have a kid like ours. I'm sure some come here because they are just curious about kids like ours or are friends of people who have kids like ours and I'm sure there are therapists and psychiatrists and tdocs that lurk and get a boatload of free info and suggestions too - but the majority of people that come here? Parents that are just worn out - and need to know like our front page says - YOU ARE NOT ALONE. </p><p> </p><p>If I don't say it often enough - I am so VERY GLAD that I am not alone any more. I am grateful for each of you. I have learned so much, I've never laughed so much, and I've never had a better group of gals to call friends. I thoroughly enjoy telling people that I know "Oh I have a friend in Washington, I have a friend in Indiana, ARizona, California, Florida, Connecticut, CHicago, NewJersey, NewYork, Ohio, OHio, OHio, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina, Australia, NewZeland, Michigan. Israel, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and all over - It makes me sounds soooooo worldly....like I've been a freak for penpals my entire life - lol </p><p> </p><p>ps.....What are you getting me for my BIRTHDAY????? <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" /></p><p> </p><p>So from the bottom of my ever enlarging heart - THank you ALL. </p><p> </p><p>And the gal that wondered if SHE had something to contribute - actually told ME something that I pray about every day and wondered if I was making a difference - so I just found that VERY-----mysterious AND weird....lol. </p><p> </p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 295950, member: 4964"] Shari The thought crossed my mind this morning after I read your post and I thought = you know, she's right. When I'm in difficult child, chaotic, tornadic, cyclonic, mudslide, omg someone please just throw me a frickin' bone mode - I hope no one really ever knows it, because I know there are so many greater problems out there than mine that day. But, the problems that I have that day are mine. It doesn't make them less difficult than anyone elses - it makes them mine. So when people come here and think - DO I contribute anything? Keep this in mind. I was feeling very low and I showed up here one day and read a newbie thread where someone was at the end of THEIR rope. I started to post - even wrote this fantastically long reply then erased it. I left it go and came back to it later and replied from my heart. I got a PM later that night before I went to bed and it wasn't anything over the moon, but it just said "Thanks - you knew exactly what it felt like to be me - I was suicidal, and now - I feel so much better just knowing someone else went through what I went through." - It was hard to read it. There I was- depressed, sad - and there was a person who was actually thinking about suicide with a child in their house. It changed how I viewed the boards usefulness. WE ALL can reach out - and we ALL can say something that we may think at the time is just something which is our day -to - day or something that we DID or have DONE - but people don't come here because they are HAPPY to have a kid like ours. I'm sure some come here because they are just curious about kids like ours or are friends of people who have kids like ours and I'm sure there are therapists and psychiatrists and tdocs that lurk and get a boatload of free info and suggestions too - but the majority of people that come here? Parents that are just worn out - and need to know like our front page says - YOU ARE NOT ALONE. If I don't say it often enough - I am so VERY GLAD that I am not alone any more. I am grateful for each of you. I have learned so much, I've never laughed so much, and I've never had a better group of gals to call friends. I thoroughly enjoy telling people that I know "Oh I have a friend in Washington, I have a friend in Indiana, ARizona, California, Florida, Connecticut, CHicago, NewJersey, NewYork, Ohio, OHio, OHio, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina, Australia, NewZeland, Michigan. Israel, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and all over - It makes me sounds soooooo worldly....like I've been a freak for penpals my entire life - lol ps.....What are you getting me for my BIRTHDAY????? :raspberry-tounge: So from the bottom of my ever enlarging heart - THank you ALL. And the gal that wondered if SHE had something to contribute - actually told ME something that I pray about every day and wondered if I was making a difference - so I just found that VERY-----mysterious AND weird....lol. Hugs [/QUOTE]
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