This past week has been a difficult one because my mother had a severe anxiety attack last weekend. As a family, we have dealt with the fact that she has suffered from depression and anxiety disorder for over thirty years. We are not ashamed of talking about it whatsoever because it is an illness just like any other illness and she has no control over it. As far as we know, it began right after my birth when my mother was eighteen years old. She suffered from postpartum depression after giving birth but was able to recover from it after a few weeks. Unfortunately, four years later after giving birth to my brother, she again sank into a depression but was not able to feel better on her own. This is the way that depression and anxiety presents itself in the lives of many people. It is brought on or awakened by a traumatic or stressful experience in a person's life. In my mother's case, the stress of giving birth to three children in four years, at such a young age, … [Read more...]
Am I The Only One Crazy Stuff Happens To?
Yesterday afternoon, the most bizarre thing happened to me and I promised my husband that I would tell you guys about it because it really was the craziest thing. Sometimes I'm glad that I am able to blog about my experiences because ridiculous stuff happens to me all the time. This experience was no exception... I had a doctor's appointment yesterday around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. My husband dropped me off and I was in the doctor's office a little over an hour. When I came outside, my husband was not parked out front waiting for me because he had taken the kids to get something to eat. I called him to tell him I was done and he told me that he was on his way back to pick me up. As I was standing in front of the doctor's office a man came up to me and asked me if I worked there. I told him I did not and then he asked me if I was a patient there. My response to that was that it was none of his business as that was my personal information and I did not know him … [Read more...]
