SuZir
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I recently actually uttered that sentence to Joy. difficult child happened to have a very bad mental health day earlier this week. He run into one of the people who caused his PTSD in tennis court. Circumstances being what they are difficult child has a very weak hand on this and perps know that. Not pretty.
Anyway difficult child was having really tough time rest of the day. High anxiety, lots of flashbacks and other dissociation. Hearing, seeing and smelling things that were not there, very persistent delusional thoughts (touch of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) maybe?) and so on. His reality checking works, but they did feel very life like to him, so he wanted to check and verify a lot.
I haven't actually seen him like that before but I have heard him twice like this over phone. Anyway I spent most of the evening reassuring him that those things really weren't there and after that and lots of breathing and relaxation exercises, Tetris and Minesweeper playing and some medications difficult child got over the worst.
But Joy was really freaked out about all that. He has not seen his brother like that ever before nor probably truly understood what his diagnosis means. So next day he was still freaking out and asking questions from me and I found myself actually uttering that sentence. Preferable indeed. husband happens to overhear and spent next hour ploughing his butt out at me. I have a feeling I will hear about this from my men for long time to be (also from difficult child, one of his saving graces is an ability to laugh at himself.)
Maybe I have taken this 'nothing to be seen here, depart, please'- act just an inch too far on the side of ridiculousness?
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Anyway difficult child was having really tough time rest of the day. High anxiety, lots of flashbacks and other dissociation. Hearing, seeing and smelling things that were not there, very persistent delusional thoughts (touch of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) maybe?) and so on. His reality checking works, but they did feel very life like to him, so he wanted to check and verify a lot.
I haven't actually seen him like that before but I have heard him twice like this over phone. Anyway I spent most of the evening reassuring him that those things really weren't there and after that and lots of breathing and relaxation exercises, Tetris and Minesweeper playing and some medications difficult child got over the worst.
But Joy was really freaked out about all that. He has not seen his brother like that ever before nor probably truly understood what his diagnosis means. So next day he was still freaking out and asking questions from me and I found myself actually uttering that sentence. Preferable indeed. husband happens to overhear and spent next hour ploughing his butt out at me. I have a feeling I will hear about this from my men for long time to be (also from difficult child, one of his saving graces is an ability to laugh at himself.)
Maybe I have taken this 'nothing to be seen here, depart, please'- act just an inch too far on the side of ridiculousness?
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