Posted by Kath on October 18, 2008, at 20:01:59
In reply to Re: :-( So stressed. Make that STRESSED, posted by Sigismund on October 18, 2008, at 16:09:56
> Hi Pat, HI Kath
>
> Some kids are so much more resilient than others.
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> It would take a lot of wisdom to know how much support is too much.
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> You only get one chance at life and then its over.******I comfort myself by knowing that I have done the best I COULD in the past & continue to do the best I CAN!!! & maybe even if we are doing crappy, we're doing the best we can?? I'm pretty scared for my son, but it's his life. DH & I do the best we can to 'be there' for him & it might be TOO much, but the way we look at it, we have to be able to live with ourself whatever happens. 32 yr old daughter gets upset at me for 'enabling' - she isn't walking in my shoes.
When it really affects my emotional/ mental/ physical health it's too much. I read 36 pages of "Taming Your Gremlin" by Rick Carson today. I think it actually might help me 'get my life back'. So far it's an excellent book***
> My daughter impressed me on the phone talking to a friend about going out drinking (Australians are basically excessive with drink) and she said
> 'I dunno, I suck when I'm drunk'.****That's pretty impressive really. Isn't she only 18?? Lucky her to have that insight***
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> I was more or less living (well, not) on the street, (because you could bodgie up a room in a garage and pay only $4 a week rent) when I was that age, and we have a benign climate for the poor. And we don't have coke, which is (I suppose) a mixed blessing.
********I thought coke was everywhere?? (Unfortunately, I'd say)***> My psych amused me by saying that what we needed were ADs that felt like coke or amphetamine.
******hmmmmm. Wouldn't that be something else!***
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> Life gets pretty bloody dry sometimes, hey.
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> Like that old woman I knew who lived in an aged care facility (wonderful word, facility) clutching a teddy bear and living with the smell of dreadful food and excrement, and for years she hadn't said a thing when anyone visited, and one day she opened her mouth and said
> 'Life's not all it's cracked up to be, is it?'
> And I don't think she ever said anything else.*****Jeez!***
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> I hope I haven't depressed you.*****Not anymore than I was. It's always nice to hear what you have to say, whatever it might be. hugs, Kath
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