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<blockquote data-quote="ColleenB" data-source="post: 706596" data-attributes="member: 19887"><p>What is up with the "dirty" look? Like seriously?????</p><p></p><p>I don't get it...and they have no idea how it makes a statement to others about the fact they don't care, at all, about anything. If you can't even look clean, what else matters?</p><p></p><p>I know that sounds superficial, but it's true. Our appearance sends a message, and people do judge.</p><p></p><p>Snow day for us today, enjoying my alone time and not being pulled in ten different directions at school. We have some really tough cases at school this year (every year) and I am tired. My job takes so much emotional energy, and with my home life being difficult these last four years, I am trying to find some balance. I can't keep the pace up. That is one of the things my counsellor wants me to work on with him. He sees it in many teachers, who have to give so much at work emotionally, and when home gets difficult, they can't sustain it. I am sure it's true for all professions...when your child is an addict, no job is easy, ever. However, any of the "caring" jobs take an extra toll for sure. Working with emotions all day is exhausting. I fight to keep myself from getting emotional with the kids whose stories really break my heart. I guess its good it still matters, it's when I stop caring about my students that I have really gone into "Burnout". I don't want to go there. I have experienced that a few years ago, when our son was at his peak and I had zero experience in how to deal with it besides crying and not sleeping.</p><p></p><p>I am stronger. I know that. I just have to hope he finds his own strength and finds his way out of the dark. I have spent enough time in there with him, and I am finally leaving....I can't help him out, it ends up being just the both of us wandering around and lost. Time for me to leave him, and let him find his own way out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ColleenB, post: 706596, member: 19887"] What is up with the "dirty" look? Like seriously????? I don't get it...and they have no idea how it makes a statement to others about the fact they don't care, at all, about anything. If you can't even look clean, what else matters? I know that sounds superficial, but it's true. Our appearance sends a message, and people do judge. Snow day for us today, enjoying my alone time and not being pulled in ten different directions at school. We have some really tough cases at school this year (every year) and I am tired. My job takes so much emotional energy, and with my home life being difficult these last four years, I am trying to find some balance. I can't keep the pace up. That is one of the things my counsellor wants me to work on with him. He sees it in many teachers, who have to give so much at work emotionally, and when home gets difficult, they can't sustain it. I am sure it's true for all professions...when your child is an addict, no job is easy, ever. However, any of the "caring" jobs take an extra toll for sure. Working with emotions all day is exhausting. I fight to keep myself from getting emotional with the kids whose stories really break my heart. I guess its good it still matters, it's when I stop caring about my students that I have really gone into "Burnout". I don't want to go there. I have experienced that a few years ago, when our son was at his peak and I had zero experience in how to deal with it besides crying and not sleeping. I am stronger. I know that. I just have to hope he finds his own strength and finds his way out of the dark. I have spent enough time in there with him, and I am finally leaving....I can't help him out, it ends up being just the both of us wandering around and lost. Time for me to leave him, and let him find his own way out. [/QUOTE]
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