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bettyellen

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28. Thank you, it was horrible for my Mom. She was blamed for it, of course, and it really knocked
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 09:48 PM
Nov 2013

whatever joy she had right out the window. The stigma is huge, and her Dad had been locked away and forgotten when she was a child for the same thing. What's worse is we have a few sociopaths in the family as well, like my aunt, and they really do enjoy using weaker people as pawns or toys, just screwing with their heads. She had my Mom feeling at fault for it.

My cousin came close to a real recovery, and my aunt put a full stop to it. She was screwing around with her meds, and pulled her out of both school and work because she knew she would become more independent. I tired to intervene but my cousin has depended on her Mom for over ten years, and accepted that school and work was too much- too dangerous, even though she had been doing really well, and was perfectly safe. Now Aunty is very old and wondering what will become of the daughter she hobbled so badly over thirty years ago, and crying the blues over it. To me, she is a more messed up, and dangerous person than her daughter or my brother ever were.

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That's just bizarre. I smell an undiagnosed paranoid schizpohrenic.......... kestrel91316 Nov 2013 #1
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We have dozens in our garage. My husband used to pick them up at Ace and ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #3
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True. I wonder if it wasn't something he could have grabbed from a maintenance cart or something. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #6
Reports say he got it from the art classroom. Nt hack89 Nov 2013 #9
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What on earth does that have to do with whether or not he's schizophrenic???? kestrel91316 Nov 2013 #13
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I suspect you are wrong. uppityperson Nov 2013 #17
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It is bizarre. They diagnose kids usually, or has that changed? ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #4
He had recently moved to that school distrction BainsBane Nov 2013 #7
and the teen years are when it usually has first onset.... bettyellen Nov 2013 #11
They can come prepared also, MoonRiver Nov 2013 #8
fourteen is when the voices started with my brother, but he had smaller problems for years before. bettyellen Nov 2013 #12
Did he have childhood schizophrenia? MoonRiver Nov 2013 #19
thanks- I don't think they made a distinction back then - childhood schizophrenic vs adult onset ? bettyellen Nov 2013 #25
I'm so sorry you and your family went through all this. MoonRiver Nov 2013 #26
Thank you, it was horrible for my Mom. She was blamed for it, of course, and it really knocked bettyellen Nov 2013 #28
Oh my gosh, you all have been through so much. MoonRiver Nov 2013 #29
I am pretty much the only one who is well, alive and not an alcoholic. bettyellen Nov 2013 #30
No problem betty allen! MoonRiver Nov 2013 #31
Can we stop shaming the mentally ill and saying all horrific crimes are done by them? Kurska Nov 2013 #14
I think when something so horrific like this happens Blue_Roses Nov 2013 #16
If it was a logical way of thinking it wouldn't bother me as much Kurska Nov 2013 #20
true and it could be the same with Blue_Roses Nov 2013 #23
Very much so, our society very heavily stigmatizes any kind of mental healthcare Kurska Nov 2013 #24
I don't think it's about understanding mythology Nov 2013 #21
good point... Blue_Roses Nov 2013 #22
I think that she guessed schizophrenia because of the "talking to themselves" part, I have to say bettyellen Nov 2013 #27
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