Dear @MJG017
When I joined Sane Forums, I only wanted to fix other people, have that buoyant intelligence where I could identify with others but that aching loneliness, the feeling I was DROWNing was not addressed.
At the same time I was still reeling from seeing a psychotherapist who spent every week with my stepfather who bullied me out of my home. And who was taking my sons away.
So in my home life, no one in the medical field or in my family was listening to me I was a failure yet, sane forums,, at last in Australia someone was listening to me. These people in Sane forums told me my empathy made a difference. These people write to me asking me to write to newcomers because my empathy meant something. I wrote back to the organisers of Sane forums, they responded. My personal life was a nightmare ; I was married to a schizophrenic who i saved his life many times ( no one cared )
My brother's were I influenced to laugh at me by my mum -
In reality I spoke in half sentences and the only person who really got me was my husband who was struggling with schizophrenia.
But Sane forums loved me. I read psychotherapy books which iv studied in the past, at last after 10 years of bad therapy, I was seeing a good Psychotherapist -
And then I broke down. Who really cares about me ?
When i met you I felt someone ( I know )
Who got it. Who stood still much earlier than I did.
How did you do that ?! How did you get that cleverness much younger than I did ?
