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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2012 17:09:41 GMT
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Post by Chimera on Jun 24, 2012 17:39:43 GMT
Very tantalising and painful reading the promotional stuff from the Tavistock & Portman - if there's all this help available, how come I haven't been getting it, for 40 years, while I've been in desperate need of it? It's bringing back even more painful memories of how things have gone incomprehensibly wrong, again and again and again.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2012 17:41:08 GMT
Very tantalising and painful reading the promotional stuff from the Tavistock & Portman - if there's all this help available, how come I haven't been getting it, for 40 years, while I've been in desperate need of it? It's bringing back even more painful memories of how things have gone incomprehensibly wrong, again and again and again. Largely the same for me as well. Some appear to get the help & support that they need, but many also it seems don't.
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Post by Chimera on Jun 24, 2012 17:52:49 GMT
I think I might apply for the "Service for parents/carers of adolescents or young people" www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/parentorcarerofyoungpeople. My daughter is still in that age range (14 - 25). It's not too late for her, as I fear it is for me. (I've always had good physical health, on the whole, but since last year, at the age of 59, I've had one problem after another, and now I keep seeing a large Game Over sign looming ahead of me. Also, everyone I have been at all close to who has had severe mental health problems - that's at least 2 people in real life, and 2 online - has died without finding any resolution, relief, or release, except in death. Beware: I'm mad, bad, and dangerous to know!) If they ask me why I'm not applying for myself, in view of how severe and long-standing my problems are, I'll give them an earful.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2012 17:59:38 GMT
My daughter is still in that age range (14 - 25). It's not too late for her, as I fear it is for me. How is she with life & everything? I've found you very refreshing & intelligent to chat with. I wonder sometimes if I'm living on borrowed time myself.
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Post by Chimera on Jun 24, 2012 18:11:37 GMT
It's hard to tell how things are with my daughter, because she has hardly been speaking to me for many months now. I could ask someone how to cope with this situation, telling them what I can see from my perspective. Even a few sessions of that might be useful (I think you get six hour-long sessions), and it would be unlikely to interfere with the counselling I am getting (and am probably about to get on a more regular basis) outside the NHS.
As for living on borrowed time: some of my thoughts today reminded me of some things you've written. Perhaps we're like characters in a Road Runner cartoon, and we've already walked off the edge of a cliff, in which case, it's best not look down, and to keep on walking on thin air while we can.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2012 18:15:11 GMT
It's hard to tell how things are with my daughter, because she has hardly been speaking to me for many months now. I could ask someone how to cope with this situation, telling them what I can see from my perspective. Even a few sessions of that might be useful (I think you get six hour-long sessions), and it would be unlikely to interfere with the counselling I am getting (and am probably about to get on a more regular basis) outside the NHS. Well - I know from a couple of people first hand, who are experienced with things, that they have an excellent & very professional reputation. Yea - it's like that. Don't look down, or run into a lamp post; because you'll go into free fall without the parachute, or the past will steamroller over you...
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Post by Chimera on Jun 24, 2012 18:21:59 GMT
If you come to the bottom of a sheer, impassable cliff at ground level, just paint a tunnel mouth onto it, and run straight in.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2012 18:23:42 GMT
Will do, sounds sensible.
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