braveheart
Member
hi.
I wasn't sure where to post this...but here seemed as good a place as any...
My news is that I at last managed to tell my parents about my illness. It happened naturally, as it were, when I was 'freaking out' around crowds the last day I spent with them, mum asked me if I was alright..I said no, and that I haven't been for some time, and that I've been on anti-depressants a couple of years...and cried in her arms and had a hug...in the middle of a bookshop...
Although I am 36, I have been keeping my illness a secret from them, scared of worrying them -- when I was 17, my mum developed trigeminal neuralgia because she was worried about me - and told me that.. and with her having had a stroke in June... well...
But it was ok, they were very accepting, even admitting to suffering from anxiety and panic themselves... [but when I talk to them on the phone I find myself disappointed and craving to be able to talk about things and have all the support and loving I didn't get growing up... ]
I am looking for some good info for parents of adult children with depression....links/ideas of reading material welcome...please...My GP recommended from Mind, but its not quite what I'm looking for.
I also several weeks ago had a review at work of my transfer back in May to the back office, it went really well, and I am starting a couple of afternoons working back in the public libraries.
I still suffer from dissociation and tend towards anorexic thinking... and anxiety...but, after it peaking during a stressful time in the Autumn, and my landing in A and E with a very severe panic attack, and so dizzy I couldn't stand up... (and the doctor I saw was really nice, and took me seriously...) it has stabilised, and I am more able to contain it....
I wasn't sure where to post this...but here seemed as good a place as any...
My news is that I at last managed to tell my parents about my illness. It happened naturally, as it were, when I was 'freaking out' around crowds the last day I spent with them, mum asked me if I was alright..I said no, and that I haven't been for some time, and that I've been on anti-depressants a couple of years...and cried in her arms and had a hug...in the middle of a bookshop...
Although I am 36, I have been keeping my illness a secret from them, scared of worrying them -- when I was 17, my mum developed trigeminal neuralgia because she was worried about me - and told me that.. and with her having had a stroke in June... well...
But it was ok, they were very accepting, even admitting to suffering from anxiety and panic themselves... [but when I talk to them on the phone I find myself disappointed and craving to be able to talk about things and have all the support and loving I didn't get growing up... ]
I am looking for some good info for parents of adult children with depression....links/ideas of reading material welcome...please...My GP recommended from Mind, but its not quite what I'm looking for.
I also several weeks ago had a review at work of my transfer back in May to the back office, it went really well, and I am starting a couple of afternoons working back in the public libraries.
I still suffer from dissociation and tend towards anorexic thinking... and anxiety...but, after it peaking during a stressful time in the Autumn, and my landing in A and E with a very severe panic attack, and so dizzy I couldn't stand up... (and the doctor I saw was really nice, and took me seriously...) it has stabilised, and I am more able to contain it....