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Has a family members mental illness induced a form of PTSD for you?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 298087" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Sorry to hear I'm not alone ... yet good to know I'm not alone. Know what I mean????</p><p></p><p>I am pretty selective with my telephone. I screen all calls. I don't answer if I don't know the number. When I know the number, I choose to answer or let the machine take it. If I know the messages left are ones from those I'm ignoring, I've been known to go a week or two before even listening to them to delete them. I tend to answer my mother or brothers calls very randomly. Sometimes once every day for a few days. Then I can easily ignore calls for a week or two from them.</p><p></p><p>We tend to be doing alot as a family (meaning myself, S/O, easy child and difficult child). We go to the beach, but a more private one than the busy one where we'd likely see alot of people we know. We go see movies, go for little hikes or bike rides. We spend every Saturday walking about with easy child, checking out garage sales, observing peoples flower gardens for ideas for ours. We do most meals over summer months outside on the bbq and we often sit out star gazing on our outdoor swings. We do keep busy and part of "the world" but we tend to stick together. Of course difficult child does his own teen thing with friends. easy child is pretty stuck to us for family time but hopefully it doesn't affect her as she is active in hockey, in theater (drama) camps, hockey skills training etc. So between school friends, team mates, friends birthday parties etc, she is pretty social.</p><p></p><p>Other than that though, we are homebodies at this stage. Even the local mall seems hectic and we tend to run into all those people asking "how's your mom anyhow?" etc. I hate those questions. I want to say "Call HER and ask HER. She's likely to think you're Lucifer and are out to steal her soul, but hey! Better you than me!" (sarc)</p><p></p><p>We have decided that when S/O gets his posting to relocate for the air force, we are not renting, we will be buying. We plan to buy close to whatever town we are sent to, but on the outskirts. Not far to drive into town, but rural so we have lots of privacy and we don't want direct-next-door neighbours. So having a decent size plot of land is on the mandatory list when house hunting.</p><p></p><p>Thank you all for answering. I was wondering if it was just a "me" thing, if I was odd. Or even just a "getting older" thing. But in my gut, I think it's just a WANT SOME PEACE thing!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 298087, member: 4264"] Sorry to hear I'm not alone ... yet good to know I'm not alone. Know what I mean???? I am pretty selective with my telephone. I screen all calls. I don't answer if I don't know the number. When I know the number, I choose to answer or let the machine take it. If I know the messages left are ones from those I'm ignoring, I've been known to go a week or two before even listening to them to delete them. I tend to answer my mother or brothers calls very randomly. Sometimes once every day for a few days. Then I can easily ignore calls for a week or two from them. We tend to be doing alot as a family (meaning myself, S/O, easy child and difficult child). We go to the beach, but a more private one than the busy one where we'd likely see alot of people we know. We go see movies, go for little hikes or bike rides. We spend every Saturday walking about with easy child, checking out garage sales, observing peoples flower gardens for ideas for ours. We do most meals over summer months outside on the bbq and we often sit out star gazing on our outdoor swings. We do keep busy and part of "the world" but we tend to stick together. Of course difficult child does his own teen thing with friends. easy child is pretty stuck to us for family time but hopefully it doesn't affect her as she is active in hockey, in theater (drama) camps, hockey skills training etc. So between school friends, team mates, friends birthday parties etc, she is pretty social. Other than that though, we are homebodies at this stage. Even the local mall seems hectic and we tend to run into all those people asking "how's your mom anyhow?" etc. I hate those questions. I want to say "Call HER and ask HER. She's likely to think you're Lucifer and are out to steal her soul, but hey! Better you than me!" (sarc) We have decided that when S/O gets his posting to relocate for the air force, we are not renting, we will be buying. We plan to buy close to whatever town we are sent to, but on the outskirts. Not far to drive into town, but rural so we have lots of privacy and we don't want direct-next-door neighbours. So having a decent size plot of land is on the mandatory list when house hunting. Thank you all for answering. I was wondering if it was just a "me" thing, if I was odd. Or even just a "getting older" thing. But in my gut, I think it's just a WANT SOME PEACE thing! [/QUOTE]
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