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Homeless 46 year old daughter and a son in jail
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<blockquote data-quote="Weary Mother" data-source="post: 696871" data-attributes="member: 20487"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>Thank you for sharing. The more I read other people's stories, the more I realize that I am like a lot of people and it gives me strength. It helps me know that my struggles have been experienced by others, and the advice I read is helping me. As for me, I have had a therapist for over 5 years, the same one and she has helped me a lot. I have had a much more stressful life than just my children. My father was a case and a half and caused me a lot of stress as did my mother. My father was diagnosed by the armed forces as a paranoid schizo and spend years of his life wandering, not able to hold a job, professing his love of god to anyone who wanted to listen to him rant, all the while committing crimes ranging anywhere from murder to theft. He thankfully stayed out of my life long enough for me to grow up and wonder what happened to him, which was he died on the streets of Phoenix, after being released from a prison mental ward, and wandered around for 3 months starving, finally dying on a loading dock. Hence my fear of losing another loved one to homelessness. My mother was a depressed woman who had no spine, and cried a lot, but refused to and still refuses at age 83, to get any type of help. She fed us, clothed us, but had no insight to raising us, nothing to offer us to give us any strength to live our lives. So, I had a rough start, depression, anxiety, bad decisions. At this age I feel better than I did as a younger person. But for my difficult son and daughter my life may be as normal as can be expected. I lived to get a decent job, and live a relatively peaceful life on my own. I do have a long term relationship, play rhythm guitar and have many interests. I am so glad I found this website, it is such a comfort to have all of you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weary Mother, post: 696871, member: 20487"] Hello, Thank you for sharing. The more I read other people's stories, the more I realize that I am like a lot of people and it gives me strength. It helps me know that my struggles have been experienced by others, and the advice I read is helping me. As for me, I have had a therapist for over 5 years, the same one and she has helped me a lot. I have had a much more stressful life than just my children. My father was a case and a half and caused me a lot of stress as did my mother. My father was diagnosed by the armed forces as a paranoid schizo and spend years of his life wandering, not able to hold a job, professing his love of god to anyone who wanted to listen to him rant, all the while committing crimes ranging anywhere from murder to theft. He thankfully stayed out of my life long enough for me to grow up and wonder what happened to him, which was he died on the streets of Phoenix, after being released from a prison mental ward, and wandered around for 3 months starving, finally dying on a loading dock. Hence my fear of losing another loved one to homelessness. My mother was a depressed woman who had no spine, and cried a lot, but refused to and still refuses at age 83, to get any type of help. She fed us, clothed us, but had no insight to raising us, nothing to offer us to give us any strength to live our lives. So, I had a rough start, depression, anxiety, bad decisions. At this age I feel better than I did as a younger person. But for my difficult son and daughter my life may be as normal as can be expected. I lived to get a decent job, and live a relatively peaceful life on my own. I do have a long term relationship, play rhythm guitar and have many interests. I am so glad I found this website, it is such a comfort to have all of you. [/QUOTE]
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