Someone important to me was just hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, and I tried watching the “House” season opener on Hulu and I just could not watch the whole thing. Its hard right now knowing someone you care about is not well, and there’s nothing you can do to help.
I’m an A-type personality which means I want to go and fix things that I see broken. This person is sick and I care about them deeply, but there is nothing I can really do to help them other then pray. What makes it worse is the amount of friends I have pushing me to abandon this person because of things they said while sick.
Yesterday I received a call about this person from someone else. They were yelling about how this person was just doing this to seek attention, and they are just a drama queen. This person was yelling at me at the top of their lungs, and I just had to hang up on them. Why can’t people understand mental illness? What can I do to help people around me understand that when people are mentally ill, their sick and they need help, they need friends, they need family, they need love. I don’t expect them to have a masters in social work (although that would be greatly beneficial).
It really saddens me to see the stigma attached to mental illnesses. Why can’t people realize that when you abandon someone when they are ill, it makes things worse for them.
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Zach,
Frankly a couple of your most posts recently had made me decide to take a short vacation from viewing your blog. But now that I had a chance to relax I came back to see how you were doing. I care enough to stop by and “visit”.
I am so very glad to see that you have picked yourself off the ground and dusted yourself off!
Now you need to get on with the business of living. So far you have made some very good moves by way of your supportiveness of Katelyn and you child, and your preparing for a career to support them financially.
It also seems to me you are displaying some better maturity than I’ve seen from you in a while, by finally recognizing that Kate’s illness was talking to you and not Kate herself.
Just make certain you can find help for yourself so that you don’t fold like you just did recently in the face of Kate’s recently display of her illness. After all, if you can’t stand firm in the face of that, how are you going to stand firm in the face of a fire with a building about to collapse on you? You need to work on getting stronger.
Aulë
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