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Originally Posted by BethRags
A frustrating day. I'm on SSDI because of a mental illness that prevents me from being able to work. I take a lot of medication because I need to. I hate it, but the truth is that doesn't take much stress for me to completely fall apart. 58 years of carrying this burden has weakened me in many ways. A few people know of my situation, so please!! Respect my boundaries! Don't expect me to "make an exception" for you because you are special and demand that I help you out beyond what I can reasonably do. Despite many years of trying I cannot get my husband, for example, to respect my limitations. Enough is too much. Please don't make me feel like I'm failing...I'm already beating the shite out of myself as it is...and working hard in therapy to learn NOT to! Ugggghhh (this is most definitely NOT about anyone here).
Due to completely coming unglued this afternoon I fell asleep and missed the chat I've been waiting for all week.
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I'm sure all the chat participants will understand, what's important is that you needed some rest and managed to get some.
I hope things get better in terms of those close to you respecting your boundaries, it's extremely frustrating when you perceive your support network as not listening or caring. I hope that one day we get an update about how things are better then they were on that front.
I was able to join chat at the very end (wasnt home to join on time), we will have to say hi to each other next week if we can both make it.
I really hope you don't beat yourself up too much over missing chat, we'll just have to make it twice as good next week.
Hope your feeling a little bit better after your nap.