Hi Aimee, I agree with you. My parents do come from a
different era. Im 23 years. Could i possibly have your
email address and did you get mine. Megan
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<aimwaltenetzero.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Megan,
> I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm guessing that
your mom grew up
> in the same generation as mine and those subjects
were and are
> TABOO!!!. When I was in the hospital the first
time and subsequently
> therapy, my parents never talked about it. So I
stopped going to
> therapy, and for the next 17 years I did my very
best to make them
> forget that I had ever "been a problem". I
got
silent Megan and it
> damn near killed me. When I started going back to
therapy I was
> afraid to tell them.....my sister even said i was
being selfish
> because my mother was very, very sick with cancer.
Well I had my own
> type of cancer and it was literally killing me. I'm
not silent and I
> am not ashamed anymore.( Except maybe with my
father, but I do talk
> with him about things I am just not as open.) Part
of my therapy is
> talking with people and trying to educate them.
Whether it is the
> person who is needing the help or the family and
friends of that
> person. I encourage you not to be silent, but in
the same regaurd try
> and keep your calm and "silently educate your
mother, if you think
> that might work better. I would tell my dad, I had
something for him
> to read, and then give him lterature or books on
bi-polar or s/i. It
> gave us a point to talk and he began to see the
importance of
> therapy. Now if I can just convince him that I need
my meds. As he
> thinks I'm better off without them. Educating
people is a sloooooow
> process. Especially with parents I think, because
they tend to wonder
> what they did wrong. And sometimes they don't want
to believe they
> may of had a part in it, and other times they simply
don't realize
> it's not about them.
> Hope I am not way off base here with your situation
and I hope this
> helped some.
> Aimee
>
> On Feb 21, 7:32 am, Megan Wilken
<meggi...yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Is it a sin that the whole flippin world should
know I
> > AM IN THERAPY. My mother is having a fit. Maybe
if
I
> > KEEP DEAD QUIET GO INTO AN EGO STATE OF COMPLETE
> > SILENCE THEN PERHAPS SHE WIL STOP!!
> >
> >
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