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Thoughts for those who read my blog
As far as I know, I don't have any regular readers. I have several posts that get more hits than others, and I want to say a few things about this.
I have had a lot of hits for people searching for the phrase "Living with someone who has mental illness" linking to this post. For those of you who are suffering or struggling with this yourself, I wish the best for you. In that post I outlined for myself how I felt about my particular situation and the lessons I learned for myself. In general, there are things I want to say to all of you out there that are dealing with your own situations:
1) If you are feeling trapped and unable to think clearly, then find time for yourself and get some space. Give yourself an opportunity to see the situation from new eyes. If you are being treated as though you are not allowed to have any space, privacy, or your own internal world then you would do best to get out, and get out quickly.
2) Make a judgement about how you are affecting the situation that you are in. Are you enabling the behaviors that are bothering you? Are you sincerely helping the person that you are with? Are you taking care of yourself and getting your needs met while trying to help the person you are with? What is your role, and what is the role of the person you're dealing with?
3) If you're in a situation where you can't leave (for instance, taking care of your mother), then reach out to people. The last thing you need is to be isolated. There is lots of compassion out there in the world for people that try to do the right thing.
For the many of you that google that phrase "living with someone's mental illness" and find me, I'm sorry that I'm probably not going to be much help. My heart goes out to all of you that are at your ropes end and searching the internet for some clue about what to do next is a last recourse for yourself. If anything, if you feel like talking, I'll listen, and I'm sure others will too. Therapists are usually a good way to go, but also feel free to post (anonymously, if you want) anything here if you just want to get things off your chest.
Now, the for the other big search terms related to Simplexity, Cell Tech, algae, and everything related to that (linked to this post and this post): I suggest you just don't buy that crap. You'd be wasting your money on something that isn't going to help, potentially is dangerous, and you'd be rewarding dishonest people that are manipulating desperate people for a living. I'm sorry for you guys as well that you feel that need to do whatever you can to help your kids, or whoever else and don't want to use drugs or tried and found it didn't work. I hope those posts are doing a service for you to realize why you shouldn't waste your money supporting those scam artists.
It seems that people come to my site looking for answers and help more than anything else, and I do hope I provide something for you that are searching. Mostly, my poetry and philosophical and cultural/political musing are ignored and never read, which disappoints me because those writings are much more important to me (and often, better written, in my opinion). But that is the nature of the internet, and I've grown comfortable with the realization that my writings are seldom read and not well marketed. Perhaps in the future, I'll revisit my poems and writings and do more with them... in the meantime, let them sit out in the open gathering dust until someone else stumbles upon them and finds something they like. I imagine it like The Neverending Story with some exciting connection bursting off the (electronic) page.
I have had a lot of hits for people searching for the phrase "Living with someone who has mental illness" linking to this post. For those of you who are suffering or struggling with this yourself, I wish the best for you. In that post I outlined for myself how I felt about my particular situation and the lessons I learned for myself. In general, there are things I want to say to all of you out there that are dealing with your own situations:
1) If you are feeling trapped and unable to think clearly, then find time for yourself and get some space. Give yourself an opportunity to see the situation from new eyes. If you are being treated as though you are not allowed to have any space, privacy, or your own internal world then you would do best to get out, and get out quickly.
2) Make a judgement about how you are affecting the situation that you are in. Are you enabling the behaviors that are bothering you? Are you sincerely helping the person that you are with? Are you taking care of yourself and getting your needs met while trying to help the person you are with? What is your role, and what is the role of the person you're dealing with?
3) If you're in a situation where you can't leave (for instance, taking care of your mother), then reach out to people. The last thing you need is to be isolated. There is lots of compassion out there in the world for people that try to do the right thing.
For the many of you that google that phrase "living with someone's mental illness" and find me, I'm sorry that I'm probably not going to be much help. My heart goes out to all of you that are at your ropes end and searching the internet for some clue about what to do next is a last recourse for yourself. If anything, if you feel like talking, I'll listen, and I'm sure others will too. Therapists are usually a good way to go, but also feel free to post (anonymously, if you want) anything here if you just want to get things off your chest.
Now, the for the other big search terms related to Simplexity, Cell Tech, algae, and everything related to that (linked to this post and this post): I suggest you just don't buy that crap. You'd be wasting your money on something that isn't going to help, potentially is dangerous, and you'd be rewarding dishonest people that are manipulating desperate people for a living. I'm sorry for you guys as well that you feel that need to do whatever you can to help your kids, or whoever else and don't want to use drugs or tried and found it didn't work. I hope those posts are doing a service for you to realize why you shouldn't waste your money supporting those scam artists.
It seems that people come to my site looking for answers and help more than anything else, and I do hope I provide something for you that are searching. Mostly, my poetry and philosophical and cultural/political musing are ignored and never read, which disappoints me because those writings are much more important to me (and often, better written, in my opinion). But that is the nature of the internet, and I've grown comfortable with the realization that my writings are seldom read and not well marketed. Perhaps in the future, I'll revisit my poems and writings and do more with them... in the meantime, let them sit out in the open gathering dust until someone else stumbles upon them and finds something they like. I imagine it like The Neverending Story with some exciting connection bursting off the (electronic) page.
posted by Will at 11:30 PM
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