resting52 wrote:Another really wonderful group is NAMI. National Association for Mental Illness. They have great support. Dealing with mental illness is NEVER easy. Living with Crazy is unbelievable hard. Give yourself a break. Don't beat yourself up for being angry or frustrated. Those are natural responses to living with an awful illness.
Never heard of them. Thanks.
OCD is terribly persistant brain injury type thing-now the prevailing thought is that it is an autoimmune response secondary to a strep or viral infection. It isn't contagious-you won't be like her! Remember, no mentally ill person wants to be like they are-they are trapped. But there is help. I hope she is getting it.
Hmm. I have two autoimmune disorders, rheumatoid and hypothyroid (probably from Hashimoto's thyroiditis, although it could be from trauma when I was run over). I hadn't heard that theory, which is interesting because her son has it too, only not as bad. He has the Mad Scientist version, where the shop or laboratory looks like a tornado hit it. Most everybody knows someone like that.
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Stuff piled up everywhere. I guess I can stand his version because all the STUFF is usable, like books or power tools and such.
The above is a sample of the chaos. The article of furniture the chaos is on happens to be a futon my husband gave her to sleep on. She sleeps on the floor.
No, she isn't getting any "help". The truth of the matter is she was born batshit crazy and will die that way. She once got so bad that the son ended up in a children's home and she ended up getting shock therapy. It would never dawn on her that she needed help, and, because she doesn't care about anyone else on earth, wouldn't accept any. She just "buys stuff and gives people stuff", but it's never, ever anything they want, and it's usually something they have three of already.
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Example: my husband is a gardener and last year we had ten million pumpkins whose innards are still in our freezer. What did she foist on us but a dented can of pumpkin from Walmart! A Buddhist teacher friend of mine insisted that was a "warped example of compassion" but I still can't see it. It would be nice if I could, but then I'd be a "Buddhist teacher" -- and have more green squares on my calendar.
Maybe if you thought of the OCD as cancer or diabetes you could deal with her better and not be so frustrated. At least that is what I do. Also I do a lot of praying.
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you have OCD, or a family member with same? Obviously. Well, diabetes. That's another story. She eats candy by the ton and crap she gets from Walmart and the Swiss Colony.
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So the last time she went to the MD her glucose was off the charts. The poor doctor, who is clueless, gave her a meter.
Guess what happened to the meter -- it's at the bottom of one of the mountains of crap in her room. An expensive glucometer that we probably have to give back to the doctor.
I love reading all your posts because you do have a great sense of humor plus you are such a wonderful encourager!
Resting
Thank you, you've made my day. By the way, if that is your resting pulse rate, how did you get that fit?
hugs, f
One must know his limitations. -- John Milius
Beginning weight: 115
Currently: Haven't a clue