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Old Jan 29, 2012, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Perna View Post
Oh, how very hard for you! My senile stepmother was hospitalized in the same wing my mother died of a brain tumor in, 45 years earlier, and I had to visit her. It was at a large Navy base complex and I kept having flashbacks to the time between when my mother died and my father remarried and just after that; my stepmother use to tell the story of the first time she took me to that hospital (I was 5) I proudly announced to an elevator full of people, "This is the hospital where my mommy died!" I had a heck of a time getting from my car though to the room to visit my stepmother; the flashbacks were so thick of being 3-6 years old. It did not help that I was in therapy for that reason; my stepmother was not able to "care" for me so who would now? I had merged the two mothers and here one was helpless and dying all over again.

Do you have any friends who could walk with you, escort you to your therapy sites (and then pick you up afterwards?). Having solid people in my "now" life talking/listening to me would help me I think.

My T says to call her when I come driving up. She also walks me to my car. She is awesome. The other people in my group have been really supportive as well. They are an awesome group of people. I guess I have been pretty lucky with all this support, considering.
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
---Robert Frost