I love this.
So true.
I hate those commercials. I love the way you've described my nervous breakdown, Tish!
:O)
Ha, Tish!
True.
Well, looks like I am quoting your whole post, Tish.
I love it.
"But the time for support and editorializing is over."
Yes.
And that is respect.
Yes! I love this.
Beautifully expressed, Tish.
Yep. I love the part about sitting outside your bedroom door going on and on. That is just how it feels to be us.
I wonder why they do these things? They all seem to be doing it. It is exhausting.
And at the end of all that listening, I don't feel like I have accomplished a darn thing. That's the problem. How to do this.
Or how not to, without feeling terrible about ourselves.
There was some loss of touch with reality for daughter during this. Very scary to her. She knew it wasn't really real, but it seemed real.
Very scary for me, too.
Somehow, she was able to hang on through that.
I found a TED talk by a woman who came back from severe dissociative illness. She did it by accepting that the things she saw and heard, no matter how scary, were parts of herself. She went on to take a Master's and is working on her doctorate, now.
medications were not working for her. She went homeless, was hopelessly psychotic, according to her own report.
Wow.
True.
Kaliedescope, right?
On the fridge it goes.
I love this.
Cedar
