You're amazing
You are all amazing. J & I both have major mental illness and actually met in hospital. Since then he has developed heart failure, diabetes and gout and his son - now 15 - was diagnosed as high functioning autistic nearly 2 years ago. He lives with his Mum but we are of course deeply involved with him. We've both had spells in hospital during the last few years, J because of his heart as well.
It sometimes (often?) feels as if we have to carry on because there seems to be no other choice and because we're made the way we are we manage somehow, leaving out as much as we can, and then as someone else put it, collapse in a heap. The hard bit to me is the carrying on when feeling hopeless, that nothing will ever change, certainly not for the better. It's very hard to see the light.
How do others cope?
Love,
Isobel