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Do you ever feel like your difficult child's issues have created mental health issues in yourself
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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 333893" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>If insanity is heredity and we get it from our kids - ya'll better make the next reunion REAL soon and meet me NOW.....cause I'm dooooomed (said like Charlie Brown) ROFLMbald head off. </p><p> </p><p>Tossing my .02 cents in for mental illness can be caused....when I was abused as a wife over and over? The symptoms I suffered from were very much a mental illness. They were text book descriptions OF mental illness. By the time I started in therapy I was considered mentally ill due to battered spouse syndrome. I'm not sure of the technical term but the reaching term meant from THIS abuse I had reaching effects that were long lasting that were cause and affect for other things in my life. So in asking CAN you GET a mental illness without being born with it? Yes. Can you be cured of it? Yes. It takes a lot of time, patience, therapy and what is known as re-mapping of your brain, but sometimes things can be reversed. </p><p> </p><p>I think this is why we preach to each other about making SURE we take care of ourselves. If WE don't? Then who will take care of our kids? I'm not talking about having a stressful day or two and then going off the deep end...I'm talking about years and years and years of patterns of abuse with no help, no end, no support. It changes your brain. It can cause permanent and irreversible damage. </p><p> </p><p>So to answer this question without being specific....it is possible to have a lasting abusive situation cause changes that you could be considered mentally ill. The difference for us here is - we have each other, we have resources and we have the knowledge that we have choices to not continue to stay in that situation and get help for ourselves and our children. Whether we choose to take that step? As always; a personal one. </p><p> </p><p>Does that help?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 333893, member: 4964"] If insanity is heredity and we get it from our kids - ya'll better make the next reunion REAL soon and meet me NOW.....cause I'm dooooomed (said like Charlie Brown) ROFLMbald head off. Tossing my .02 cents in for mental illness can be caused....when I was abused as a wife over and over? The symptoms I suffered from were very much a mental illness. They were text book descriptions OF mental illness. By the time I started in therapy I was considered mentally ill due to battered spouse syndrome. I'm not sure of the technical term but the reaching term meant from THIS abuse I had reaching effects that were long lasting that were cause and affect for other things in my life. So in asking CAN you GET a mental illness without being born with it? Yes. Can you be cured of it? Yes. It takes a lot of time, patience, therapy and what is known as re-mapping of your brain, but sometimes things can be reversed. I think this is why we preach to each other about making SURE we take care of ourselves. If WE don't? Then who will take care of our kids? I'm not talking about having a stressful day or two and then going off the deep end...I'm talking about years and years and years of patterns of abuse with no help, no end, no support. It changes your brain. It can cause permanent and irreversible damage. So to answer this question without being specific....it is possible to have a lasting abusive situation cause changes that you could be considered mentally ill. The difference for us here is - we have each other, we have resources and we have the knowledge that we have choices to not continue to stay in that situation and get help for ourselves and our children. Whether we choose to take that step? As always; a personal one. Does that help? [/QUOTE]
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