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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/23/2008 4:21:58 PM
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butterfly616
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butterfly616,
I am praying for you and your son about that.
Thank you, Limulus! God bless you!
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/23/2008 5:09:57 PM
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Dear hubby may have a job! He is going for orientation this week. With OTR trucking, orientation is also like an extended final interview, although you do get paid for your orientation days.
And it's a good thing, too, because he had gone from depressed, to slightly depressed AND extremely restless.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/23/2008 9:27:12 PM
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Praying for you Butterfly.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/23/2008 10:03:42 PM
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Great news, stateofgrace.
Limulus, I'm praying for you.
Butterfly, my son is still waiting for a full diagnosis. He's 24 and when I suggested he move home, he said he'd rather live on the streets than move home. Thankfully he changed his mind on that, but I have a small inkling of what you must be going through. It's so hard to see our kids mentally ill and struggling so much. I'm sure your heart is breaking. {{{{{{{Butterfly}}}}}}}
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/24/2008 9:22:05 AM
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It's especially hard when the kids are legally adults and your options as a parent are limited as to what you can do. I have a coworker going through this now. Her daughter is in her late 20s. There was a suicide attempt, and I suggested to my coworker that she get a legal consultation ASAP. In VA you can get an involuntary commitment if a person is a deemed a danger to themselves or others, but it's not an easy thing to pursue.
I have some relatives in another state who are trying to prevent this type of situation by being declared legal guardians for their son who just turned 18.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/24/2008 12:59:14 PM
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My mom is now the caretaker for my sister who shot herself in the stomach several years ago. My mom prayed, nursed her back to health, and now takes care of her full time. Sister is bipolar. On top of that my dad is verbally abusive to say it mildly and also has some other major issues, but refuses to see a psychiatrist.
When I call my mom these days she is broken, bitter, negative and I can tell she is suffering. She claims to know Christ, but I keep praying that she gets involved into a bible believing church.
Our family carries with it schizophrenia, bipolar, several suicides in the family, etc. I guess it helps to hear that we are not the only ones going through this.
Me, my aunt and uncle and my mom are the only ones who are saved in our family, from what I know. I know I would be much worse off without Christ in my life.
Anyhow, asking for prayer about all of that.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/24/2008 3:19:09 PM
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Praying for everyone's requests. May God give you all peace and comfort this week as you celebrate Thanksgiving with or without your families and/or friends.
I'm dealing with a lot of stress right now, so I need prayer as well. Between a relative's dementia issues, holiday house cleaning, company coming to stay with us through the holidays, SAD, mood swings and female issues, it's enough to drive me batty. Pray for me not to get too depressed and frazzled and enjoy the holidays. Also for God to give me His peace no matter what.
If I'm not back here before then, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/24/2008 8:17:53 PM
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{{{{{{Melissa}}}}}}
Limulus, my family seems inundated with things like that too. {{{{{{{Limulus}}}}}}}
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/24/2008 11:57:40 PM
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I injured my back while in court last week. I was walking to the bus to go see my therapist today. It took way longer for me to walk to the bus than I had planned on, so I missed my bus. The next one got me to the therapist's office almost 30 minutes late, so she couldn't see me. I won't be able to get in until sometime next week now. I wish I had realized that it was going to take me that long to walk to the bus.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/25/2008 12:32:49 AM
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I think many of us have families like that. I know I'm another one. My Dad had some illness involving psychosis (mostly paranoia but sometimes hallucinations) and mood swings that he didn't treat until after I graduated college and several in his family also had whatever that was - most of them also refusing to treat it and many of them (including both my Dad and his Dad) using the illness as an excuse to be very twistedly abusive. Mom's side is full of anxiety and depression - they tend to be VERY tightly wound like the old Southern saying about longtailed cats in a roomful of rocking chairs. Let's just leave the combination at family gatherings were interesting enough being rare and typically one sided.
Roberta, sorry you're having back troubles and missed counseling because of it.
Me, I'm working on how to iron out the wrinkles of fine details around stuff like new health problems. I have to go to the "ambulatory infusion center" for IV meds that they're hoping will break a streak of almost constant headaches I've had for close to 3 weeks. Then my husband has had really bad back pains that they thought were indicative of kidney troubles only now they're thinking it may be diverticulitis and we're waiting to find out when he'll be having an abdominal CT with contrast.
So if I don't see any of you again before then, I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/25/2008 5:09:12 PM
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Hi,
I just thought I'd post my story. If it weren't for my mental illness, I probably never would have become a christian. The reason is that I came to Christ in a hospital. I was diagnosed attention deficit and put on ritalin back in college. In a few months I became psychotic and was taken to a hospital, though I didn't know where I was. As I came to I started thinking of all the major world religions. I knew about christianity from attending a youth group (although I didn't become a christian) in high school. I thought about buddhism and couldn't find anything to help me, then thought about hinduism, and it actually scared me because it said "I am God". I thought to myself "I'm not God", and immediately went down on my knees and confessed my sins to Jesus and asked him into my life.
Its been a rocky road since then. It turns out I'm bipolar, but medicine keeps me stable. I'm I'm so happy Jesus is in my life. But I can't see myself having turned to him if something disasterous hadn't happen to shake me out of where I was.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/25/2008 11:33:08 PM
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Hi tw12357!
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 8:13:39 AM
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Awesome testimony, TW!
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 3:07:53 PM
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Thank God she's stable! I'm so thankful for myself as well. God bless her.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 3:15:38 PM
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Two prayer requests:
#1 My pdoc has said that I can work up to 15 hours a week. My boss has asked if I'd consider working 60-80 hours a week from December 15 through January 15.
I did it last year and the results weren't good.
This year it's the same job, different boss.
Last year I was also going through a lot of other major life changes.
The money would be nice for Christmas and my dd's upcoming 16th birthday.
I have a pdoc appt. on the 11th. I will talk to her about it.
#2 Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Everyone (including several relatives from out of state) is gathering at my grandmother's house. My children will be there. Relatives that I haven't seen in 15-20 years will be there. It's a long but very pretty drive to get there and I still haven't recovered from a back injury that I got a week ago today.
Grandma is 81 and she gets meaner every year. She was a mean old lady when I met her 36 years ago and she has only gotten older and meaner!
I don't do well with crowds. However, if I can just visit with family in small clusters, I do fine.
I can either stay home alone or I can go and endure or avoid grandma.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 3:45:29 PM
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Roberta, tell your boss you can't do the extra hours. I'm sorry, but 60+ hours is at least 4x what your doctor has already said that you could work up to. It may only be for a month, but when are you going to fit family, church, therapy etc around working perhaps 80 hours a week.
And certainly don't agree to anything before you've spoken with your doctor.
You've been dealing with a lot of things this year and you're still dealing with many of them. I suspect your dd would rather have a healthy mother than having a bunch of presents and a mother who's a complete wreak.
How are you all going to your grandmother's house tomorrow? How many cars are you taking? Is it possible to take more than 1 car and then leave (on your own) early if things are too stressful? Or you can take a pile of books and music and stuff and sit in the car until the others are ready to leave.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 4:18:42 PM
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Roberta, tell your boss you can't do the extra hours. I'm sorry, but 60+ hours is at least 4x what your doctor has already said that you could work up to. It may only be for a month, but when are you going to fit family, church, therapy etc around working perhaps 80 hours a week.
That is what the problems were last year, except I wasn't approved for therapy and pdoc appointments yet, so I didn't have to fit those in. I also had ran out of almost all of my meds. This year I have the therapy, meds and my pdoc.
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And certainly don't agree to anything before you've spoken with your doctor.
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You've been dealing with a lot of things this year and you're still dealing with many of them. I suspect your dd would rather have a healthy mother than having a bunch of presents and a mother who's a complete wreak.
Her dad will be out here, so I may just have him take care of her whole Sweet 16.
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How are you all going to your grandmother's house tomorrow? How many cars are you taking? Is it possible to take more than 1 car and then leave (on your own) early if things are too stressful? Or you can take a pile of books and music and stuff and sit in the car until the others are ready to leave.
We are all going in my BIL's king cab truck. I can't drive due to the panic attacks. My pdoc won't let me drive until I can go six months without having one.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 6:56:49 PM
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Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving.
I was planning on spending it at home, alone and depressed, but my friend called me and invited me out to his folks.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 7:14:56 PM
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I agree completely with Stovie about the extra hours. No WAY should you be doing that. Even well people would find those hours long, stressful and tiring and at Christmas time, there are so many more demands on us besides working. I think your daughter and those you give to would rather a small gift or no gift at all and have you in reasonably good mental health than to get a generous gift but have you so stressed you're not fun to be around. Just because you have meds, therapy and a doctor to go to, doesn't mean that such long hours would be safe for you. I wouldn't do it. It's a recipe for disaster.
Stovie's suggestion about taking stuff to do in a time-out is excellent (she seems to make excellent suggestions these days--maybe she could get a job as a psychiatric assistant and work 15 hours a week).
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Her dad will be out here, so I may just have him take care of her whole Sweet 16. It would be nice to do SOMETHING for her, even if it's only a couple of dollars or something you make that costs nothing.
Limulus, I'm SO glad you have someplace to go for Thanksgiving--and that you agreed to go.
I hope that all you Americans have a great Thanksgiving with minimal stress and lots of joy.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/26/2008 8:47:40 PM
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Stovie's suggestion about taking stuff to do in a time-out is excellent (she seems to make excellent suggestions these days--maybe she could get a job as a psychiatric assistant and work 15 hours a week).
Yea, aga's a keeper!
I was actually downloading some music to take along on my laptop. However, I came across Held by Natalie Grant. That song, a few Rich Mullins songs and a Todd Agnew song always stop me dead in my tracks.
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Her dad will be out here, so I may just have him take care of her whole Sweet 16.
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It would be nice to do SOMETHING for her, even if it's only a couple of dollars or something you make that costs nothing.
Well, I don't know anyone outside of our family who celebrates a Sweet 16 anymore. However, my dad's parents started a tradition that is still carried on today.
Mom passes on something of sentimental value (like a piece of jewelry) and makes her a Sweet 16 corsage. Just dad and daughter go out to a fancy restaurant.
All the years that we were married, I only made him stick to one tradition..... watching Miracle on 34th St. on Thanksgiving night. I think he can add another tradition without too much stress. Of course part of my bitterness comes from the fact that I'm not ready to deal with him yet. I'm polite to him on the phone, but I haven't seen him since we separated. Trying to put my anger aside or deal with it before he comes.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/27/2008 5:29:01 AM
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WellI went to the doctor here for the first time and he said that he thinks I am on the wrong medications. I was told to take 15mg of Abilify and he has now reduced it to 10mg, and in the next two weeks I need to be on 5mg each day. He suggested I go to therapy and talk my problems over with someone. He is just a regulare doctor though, not a specialized doctor. I am not sure what to think about all this. Lately I have been feeling somewhat anxious and paranoid with suspicious thoughs running through my head. I am taking the medications because I want to follow doctors orders. He just got my charts and is taking a closer look at them. I am going to go see him in like 2 weeks I belive it is ( have to double check). Just please pray that this goes well and ends good. I am not sure if what he is saying it true. I dont know if I should be completely off medications. I dont even know if that is the route he is taking me on. I dont even have a real diagnosis yet to be honest with you. Each doctor that I see, sees something different. I am drawing closer and closer to Him each day because I need HIM to see my through this. I am also making sure to have a spirit of praise and gratitude because I know that is important even in the midsts of something I dont like going through its important to be thankful for the trials that come our way. Please continue to pray. Thank you so very much.
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/27/2008 6:41:07 AM
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Chat rooms/ forums are an excellent place to overcome the tendency to
allow past problems to interfere with new relationships, esp. the ones based or founded on the Love of God in Christ. I think on what I have just
typed in, and I am allowing it to put a smile on my face :). The love of God in Christ Jesus, yes, shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit of Promise. That is one of the secrets of developing a consistant frame of mind, especially in dealing with people.
My first 500 posts or so, I took it all at face value and ignored the fact that
nicks or pseudonyms allow people to role play or deliver thoughts or sentiments to effect the spiritual health of others in a clandestine or cloaked manner. So what, thought I? If that is the intent the Lord will certainly provide the antidote for the poison. I have found there are sincere people involved in these discussions also, who really do love the Lord.
Eventually I learned from another forum, (that does not allow the edit function) that some participants in these discussions probably would be better off w/o a computer. 
Anyway, we face these problems in person every day, essentially. I am praying for all those who are seeking deliverance from any sort of problem, whether it be mental or spiritual emotional, physical or financial! In my case the best way to approach any topic is with the thought of making Jesus proud, and to be able also to walk my talk.
If you notice, which I am sure you have, my nick is my first name, and
I am comfortable with that now. For many years I hid from being myself because of satans efforts to keep me from the Love of God in Christ. I am proud to say, that is no longer possible. I give the Lord Jesus credit for giving me a solid rock to stand and to build upon, and that includes therapy and medications and God fearing Medical professionals.
The Lord bless all who have fought and are fighting a good fight of faith for it is the Lord fighting for You! (AND HE WINS) Exodus 14:14
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RE: Mental Health Encouragement - One Stop Thread - 11/27/2008 8:15:33 AM
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I love your family's tradition about Sweet 16! How lovely!
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Of course part of my bitterness comes from the fact that I'm not ready to deal with him yet. I'm polite to him on the phone, but I haven't seen him since we separated. Trying to put my anger aside or deal with it before he comes. {{{{{{{{{Roberta}}}}}}}}}}
Congratulations on the sobriety! This may be your best Thanksgiving ever! We'll need to pray that Limulus can have a drink-free Thanksgiving as well.
LOL about the devotionals!
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He suggested I go to therapy and talk my problems over with someone. He is just a regulare doctor though, not a specialized doctor. Therapy is a very good idea and the fact that he's recommending that you do that shows that he's not trying to do all your medical care himself. As for reducing the medication, some meds you can't stop cold-turkey. Perhaps he's weaning you off this one to put you on a more effective one? I'd be concerned about the anxious thoughts and paranoia. Yes, developing a deeper relationships with Jesus is crucial, and what you're doing there is awesome, but it doesn't negate the need for a doctor.
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I give the Lord Jesus credit for giving me a solid rock to stand and to build upon, and that includes therapy and medications and God fearing Medical professionals. Good for you!
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