I am in my late 50's and am a cancer survivor...that's good, I know, but I also have an emotional illness and when I get stressed (and that is quite often) my symptoms erupt. I feel stuck and trapped in the mental health system. If it wasn't for the encouragement of my partner, I'd be lost. I never believed I had a mental problem that I need to keep at bay with pills, but when I don't take them, I relapse and go into hospital where I have been committed too many times to count in my life. I cry a lot...am in radiation treatments for my cancer and do not work cause I am subsidized by government...so me and my partner stay at home a lot...24/7. We don't have a car and the only way I feel socially connected at this time is by phone and computer blogging...other than that, I isolate. It is amazing that my relationship has lasted as long as 15 years, but we work at it...coz we are all we have. He is beginning to find work and I will be alone even more. Its 2 complicated 2 ask 4 help
2006-10-28 14:21:14 · 4 answers · asked by chione2u 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Should I go public on Yahoo 360 or don't y'all like to read about people with disabilities and what they write and have to deal with?
2006-10-28 14:24:27 · update #1
Have you considered joining some kind of local support group? There must be something in your area which would give you some social contact.
2006-10-28 14:24:33 · answer #1 · answered by NordicGuru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am over 50 with a disability and I am actually happy to be more socially disconnected. I do have some contact but largely feel that most people are so overstressed with work and family, that socializing holds little value for me.
If you have a partner that is caring for you through all these traumatic events, you have the greatest gift there.
Go out when you feel up to it, to a movie or restaurant you like. Go to a good park or art gallery or whatever the 2 of you might enjoy. Otherwise, when not up to going out, I would just have the Netlflix deliver and enjoy at home. You can always take up doing something artistic while you are home alone.
good luck.
2006-10-28 21:36:11 · answer #2 · answered by kate 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The biggest point of interest that impacts me about that whole scenario is how much computers and the internet have connected people to an outside world that otherwise would be unreachable. I am amazed at the various problems and situations that some people have to deal with each and every day. My life seems like a walk in the park in comparison.
2006-10-28 21:35:32 · answer #3 · answered by Nc Jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try and work in the same place as him and dont give up!
2006-10-28 21:24:33 · answer #4 · answered by ccccccccdddddgggggrrrrwwwsszcvbn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋