Parenting
How do you cope when you yourself have significant mental/neurological conditions, all of your children have significant mental and neurological conditions. Sure you have a supportive husband but he has severe ptsd too
How can no one tell you the negatives of parenting. No one tells you how hard it is. No one tells you how much your heart will break in a day. No one tells you, you have to hold your child while they try and fix a broken bone, all the while you watch your child cry and suffer immense pain that they black out.. or that every day is a battle.. a battle with school, ndis, doctors to get them what they need. The sorrow in their eyes when they have been bullied for been different.. my heart is crushed every single day knowing their lives are just that bit more difficult then everyone else’s.
I have no one to talk too, psychologists are amazed i still have my head above water. Which is only due to my psychiatrist and a heavy dose of medication
Im in such a low. I have no social life. Im tired of fighting.
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The thing is it’s not that bad. I say that as someone that’s been in the worst of it, now most days are good days. Maybe he’s work, maybe lonely, maybe there’s a problem, but they’re not day after day of really hard days mixed with your heart breaking over your child’s ability to cope in each situation they go into.
All I can say is that right now, you need respite. You need days off and don’t tell me things will fall apart and be harder when you get back. They’ll be hard anyway, take the time off, you NEED it.