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Posted by Angel Girl on July 25, 2002, at 22:40:39
I give up. I have nothing left. What do you do when the mental health system won't help you??? I've phoned everybody and anybody and all I get is doors slammed in my face and tossed back and forth from one place to another and I'm still without a pdoc and therapist. They've worn me out, I have no more strength and I have no idea where else I can go for help. They choose to pretend I don't exist so what do I do now? Roll over and die?
Angel
Posted by Gabbi on July 25, 2002, at 22:55:13
In reply to I give up, posted by Angel Girl on July 25, 2002, at 22:40:39
Angel Girl,
I was going to write to you a while ago and ask if you'd found a way to deal with crashing every time you feel abandoned, because I don't have a therapist and I wondered If you had any tips. I need so much reassurance I end up driving people away, which of course creates a vicious circle,I'm sorry I'm too tired to write you a proper answer but I'm in the same situation.
If you don't believe me you can read just about anyone of the many letters I've written in the last week. Not that I have any advice to give, I wish, but I'm worn out, I've been hunting for that mystical help for 2 years. And if its not bad enough not being able to get it, when people accuse you of not trying hard enough its wayyyyy tooo muuuuuch.Precisely the reason I ended up in the hospital last week, I just gave up. I'm bloody tired, stop I want off.
Oh I bet that cheered you right up I'm sorry,
God I'm stupid. I just feel not so alone if I hear of someone elses situation, and I sometimes assume that everyone feels that way.UMMM I meant well
Posted by SandraDee on July 26, 2002, at 12:27:55
In reply to I give up, posted by Angel Girl on July 25, 2002, at 22:40:39
If I can't give up neither can you.
We both have kids that need us. How can you say you have nothing left?
I don't know what you want from me, Sue. You ignore me in emails, then blow up because I don't respond to you after you have been ignoring me.
I have tried to offer support to you before, with no luck. Some of this is better said in an email. It is hard for me to offer you support on issues such as the black hole. I'm not in that place, and I haven't really ever been there. I get depressed, but I think mine was more post partum and just feeling overwhelmed. I rarely feel like I just want to die. I can't relate to that much unless I'm feeling that way myself at the time. I know you probably won't understand this, and now (from what you've emailed) you already have this preconceived idea of "who I am"... that's totally untrue. I get overwhelmed dealing with my kids. I get frustrated because saying "take time for yourself" is so much easier to say than it is to DO. "Get exercise" is a lot easier to say than it is to find time/want to do. So please don't say NO one supported you - Gabbi responded. I was just taking your lead from the way the email group has gone lately.
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