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RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Frostbite - 12-09-2010
It's not a problem and no thanks are needs. Feel free to get back to me if anything needs to be further explained or elaborated on, okay?
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Solidify - 12-09-2010
(12-09-2010, 05:15 PM)Frostbite Wrote: It's not a problem and no thanks are needs. Feel free to get back to me if anything needs to be further explained or elaborated on, okay?
Sure thing. She's began reading and after the first paragraph, she bursts out saying "Who are these people". I just told her they're people that want to help and that know how to deal with these situations.
Edit: She finished reading and told me that most of it is 'easily said but not easily done'. Then I asked what she meant and she told me that it's easy to say how to set things right but she's with her day in, day out and its physically exhausting. Nothing else, nothing more.
Just to have her read that letter must have been exhausting since her mother tongue is French so she's not familiar with complex sentence structure and high end vocabulary, which may seem difficult to some yet average to others. The reason I say this is that when my mother read your letter, she was probably dumbfounded because she couldn't think of anything else to say.
She gave me a look as though she knew whoever wrote that was right and that they know what they're talking about.
What's next?
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Frostbite - 12-09-2010
Start small, like I said. Special help for your family to talk to about grandmother stress, look into getting a caretaker to come and stay a couple days out of the week to take some strain off your mother, talk to her doctor about different medications she can take since the one she's on isn't helping out much, and also about a specialist.
It all depends on where you mother wants to start. You should ask her what she wants to do first, since this all starts somewhere.
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Solidify - 12-09-2010
(12-09-2010, 06:01 PM)Frostbite Wrote: Start small, like I said. Special help for your family to talk to about grandmother stress, look into getting a caretaker to come and stay a couple days out of the week to take some strain off your mother, talk to her doctor about different medications she can take since the one she's on isn't helping out much, and also about a specialist.
It all depends on where you mother wants to start. You should ask her what she wants to do first, since this all starts somewhere.
I've asked her what she wants to do but she told me 'I don't know what to do anymore'.
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Frostbite - 12-09-2010
Recommend the caretaker and start looking into it yourself if she can't do it, and see a therapist for you and your family to get stress management help. spice it up a bit, tell her the good things about it, like, 'If we got a caretaker, you could get out of the house more and have more time for you.' Things like that.
Set up a doctors appointment for your grandmother and talk to them about the medications and seeing a specialist, and if they can't help then seek a professional on your own, even if that means taking her to a hospital to get brain scans and neurology work done to really find out what type of brain problems she's having.
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Solidify - 12-09-2010
(12-09-2010, 06:11 PM)Frostbite Wrote: Recommend the caretaker and start looking into it yourself if she can't do it, and see a therapist for you and your family to get stress management help. spice it up a bit, tell her the good things about it, like, 'If we got a caretaker, you could get out of the house more and have more time for you.' Things like that.
Set up a doctors appointment for your grandmother and talk to them about the medications and seeing a specialist, and if they can't help then seek a professional on your own, even if that means taking her to a hospital to get brain scans and neurology work done to really find out what type of brain problems she's having.
OK. When my sisters get home, I'll have them take a look at what my mother read and propose the caretaker idea, mainly for two reasons. One, if someone's going to be staying here, I want their consent before asking and secondly, if I can get them to help propose the idea to my mother all together, it may work better.
I'll report back soon enough.
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Frostbite - 12-09-2010
Okay! I'll be around!
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - H0p.e - 12-12-2010
I read through your posts, and I'm sorry your family has to go through this. I'm not sure what to suggest, other than to try and get her somewhere. If it came down to it, maybe you could get her in jail. Then she would have food and water, as well as not being able to get out and hurt herself. I hope it works out for you.
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - FamousMassacre - 12-12-2010
What language is she speaking?
RE: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Solidify - 12-12-2010
(12-12-2010, 05:06 PM)H0p.e Wrote: I read through your posts, and I'm sorry your family has to go through this. I'm not sure what to suggest, other than to try and get her somewhere. If it came down to it, maybe you could get her in jail. Then she would have food and water, as well as not being able to get out and hurt herself. I hope it works out for you.
I'll try to be as nice as I can here because you made the effort to read my posts but plain and simple; if you don't have anything intelligent to say, don't say anything at all. Jail?
I'm sorry if this comes of as blunt but you need to check to see if your conscience is still intact bud.