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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 227549"><p>EW, we're good.</p><p></p><p>I shared an office with a woman at my last job for 4 years (and survived - was told no one lasted that long with her). She was raising 2 of her grandchildren. Their mother had been killed in a car accident when they were little and her son committed suicide not long before I started working there.</p><p></p><p>She told me he was schizophrenic. The story every one else heard before I came was that it was drugs. My guess is both and she was too ashamed to admit the mental illness. (She made disparaging comments about all the PTSD in soldiers today because they didn't come home from WWII with it and she thinks todays society is just weaker.) He was living in their basement. In and out of rehab (or psychiatric hospital, don't know with the conflicting stories). His problems started in his late teens. She was in complete anguish over what her son went through.</p><p></p><p>Yet, she was so incredibly judgmental of every one else. She didn't have a good thing to say about anyone. And she was very judgmental and vocal about difficult child and me as a parent until I finally asked her why she thought she could talk to me that way. Then she just quit saying it to me, but said things to every one else in the office. Things get back to you. Especially since no one liked her. </p><p></p><p>But, I remember thinking that she, of all people, should understand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 227549"] EW, we're good. I shared an office with a woman at my last job for 4 years (and survived - was told no one lasted that long with her). She was raising 2 of her grandchildren. Their mother had been killed in a car accident when they were little and her son committed suicide not long before I started working there. She told me he was schizophrenic. The story every one else heard before I came was that it was drugs. My guess is both and she was too ashamed to admit the mental illness. (She made disparaging comments about all the PTSD in soldiers today because they didn't come home from WWII with it and she thinks todays society is just weaker.) He was living in their basement. In and out of rehab (or psychiatric hospital, don't know with the conflicting stories). His problems started in his late teens. She was in complete anguish over what her son went through. Yet, she was so incredibly judgmental of every one else. She didn't have a good thing to say about anyone. And she was very judgmental and vocal about difficult child and me as a parent until I finally asked her why she thought she could talk to me that way. Then she just quit saying it to me, but said things to every one else in the office. Things get back to you. Especially since no one liked her. But, I remember thinking that she, of all people, should understand. [/QUOTE]
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