How we feel is not dependent on others
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I made a decision on a cold night in the Louisiana swamp to find a way out of the hopeless, desperate gravity that was my life.I was a mess, having clusters of panic attacks that would bring me to the *floor and once caused me to go catatonic.
Getting dressed, brushing my hair and teeth were no longer second nature, they had to be practiced separately as if I were learning activities of daily living all over again.
I didn't want to visit family or friends because my state of mind seemed to stick to anyone in gloom pathogen slinging range. I saw myself as a burden, the good deed my family could practice. I choose isolation over being the spreader of gloom.
This probably should have carried me to a mental ward but I didn't feel I had that privilege because I am the sole caregiver to my adult son with severe disabilities. Isolation feeds the gloom pathogen and mine was fat and happy.
January of 2017, I was at the crossroads, I had only 2 options I could see. One was to stop trying and check out (I had a plan) or I could began my quest to find my spark, (the unique, intrinsic quality that animates a person) to reacquaint and nurture that spark without sacrificing the needs of my son. I heard about Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychologist who said,
“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity – even under the most difficult circumstances – to add a deeper meaning to his life.”
I had the opportunity to see my situation in another way. To study it and document my path to health so I might be able to help others. Now that my son is about to transition to his new supported living situation, I will start the work of publishing this website.
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January of 2017, I began my quest to find my spark again, you know, that unique, intrinsic quality that animates a person). Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychologist said,
I had the opportunity to redefine my life. To see that I am not my experiences, no matter how powerful an experience may be, they do not have to define us. This allowed me study and document my path to health so I might be able to help others.
If you are in a situation like this, welcome, you are not alone and there is hope.
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“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity – even under the most difficult circumstances – to add a deeper meaning to his life.”
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