Michelle,
Think it is great that you are back in school for psych....I don't know why I decided to sort of change careers, but I think It had a lot to do w/ my oldest going in to therapy after my divorce. I am in therapy, but it hit me different seeing my 10 year old going. I can give such great advice, yet I cannot do it for myself...for instance....she has a hard time getting her feelings out, think I or her dad will get mad....I grew up in that environment..on top of all the abuse (every kind) he would invalidate my feelings. I had promised myself that I would never invalidate anyone's feelings...those are for themselves...it has nothing to do with me......so I gave her a journal, a really pretty one so she could write down her feelings and if she became nervous that she could not come to me, she would bring the journal. I am better at it than her dad.....he didn't grow up in an abusive home....so he doesn't understand alot..thinks everything will just take care of itself. You don't know what I had to do to get Katie into therapy. My meggie is 8 and when we divorced she was only 2-almost 3 so she doesn't remember most of the things that happened. Katie is not getting better at coming to me and not just bring her journal...I told her I could never get mad or angry because of how she felt......those are her feelings not mine.....I told her that the only time I may get upset is if she does something she knows not to do.......I must be doing something right b/c they are great girls. Never have to raise my voice and never hit them....they know by my tone if I am upset.....and they especially Katie wnats to be a Mom just like me and she wants to be a nurse just like me......and since I have been out of nursing for a few years due to the CD and such...it is psych and school. thank God for on line schools. I did a ton of research......I didn't want to get ******* if you know what I mean. I even went to my mentor at New England College....that is where I started going back for psych......she suggested Ashford University......they have a great psych program. Before sx. I was literally a prisioner in my own home......incontinent all of the time and in so much pain. Now I can get out b/c of the bag and such, b
but the pain still gets me though, and then I have my 2 little nurses taking care of me.
With all I have gone through in my life.......the one thing I dan say that I have done right and am most proud of is my Katie and Meggie.......I don't know what I would do without them....
Have to go take my on line exam now before I out it off any longer.....I have the exam, a rough draft for a paper and journal entries that I have to do by midnight monday....to turn in. I have been feelin so icky that I have been putting it off.
Lyn,
You need to rest more.......I see how sick u are and all that you have on your plate...especially a pain like me......but like you tell me takde care of Lyn first......what good are you going to be if you are sooooooo sick and cannot get out of bed, or in the hospital????
MsKittie,
Thanks for being here too. You as everyone that has reached out to me, a stranger, are an inspiration.........
Cowboy Up,
How are ya?????? been missing ya....
Eric,
Hope you are feeling a lot better... write to me..let me know
LUV YA ALL,
Krissie