Category: Parenting
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Being a Parent with a mental illness
I reblogged this excellent post on being a parent with mental illness, originally posted on YOUTH OF A NATION:BENT NOT BROKE by DarcSunshine. http://youthofanation.com/2014/11/22/being-a-parent-with-a-mental-illness/
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To conceive or not to conceive – Is that really a valid question?
Thank you, Edel Williams of Placid’s Place for this blog post. When I was pregnant with my son, I was under treatment for depression, but was not yet diagnosed bipolar type II. That diagnosis I received when he was two. We ended up deciding not to have more children, not because we feared passing on…
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Help My World is Chaos
We’ve been in the process of renovating our house over the last three years. My husband and I made the HUGE mistake of buying materials for several major projects up front, making decisions on the spot that should have been deferred and made one project at a time. We ended up with a house and garage…
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The greatest of these is love…
Karren of mommahood295.wordpress.com beautifully states the thoughts and experience of those of us living with mental illness when we choose to become parents.
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Gratitude
Tonight I am grateful for my son whom I love dearly. To celebrate his fourteenth birthday tomorrow, we are mountain biking on ruggedly beautiful Mammoth Mountain an ancient volcano lying beside the granite Eastern Sierras of California. The Sierra Nevada mountain range Ansel Adams photographed and John Muir wrote of and advocated to preserve. As I write, I sit…
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Lazy Summer Days
Okay, so I’ve not exactly kept to my commitment to get outside and play, nor have I gotten any interior painting done. My son has played video games since he got out of school for the summer last Wednesday — his last summer before high school! I’ve taken advantage of his laziness and have fallen…
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Suicide Infanticide
Long, long ago When my son was very, very young I thought of killing myself But what about my son? I can’t leave him behind Well then, I’ll take him with me Oh, my God! That’s where it comes from That’s why mothers take their children’s lives When depressed and suicidal They do not want…
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Bad Mom
Bad mom Selfish mom Ineffective mom Permissive mom Bipolar mom At times, abusive mom At times, out of control mom At times, rageful mom She’s even hit her kid She’s even slapped her kid No excuse No excuse to hit a child No excuse to slap a child At my son’s request, I revised this poem,…