KrishnaSenior Contributor
Daughter catatonic
Flicking through tv last night and came across a movie Beautiful Boy. The story of a family struggling to help their drug addicted son. Oh my, it resonated so deeply with me in so many ways. There was a scene where they were at a parents support group and on the wall were the words "You did not cause this, you cannot cure this, you cannot change this". It's taken me 9 years to accept this. My girl has continued over the years to use substances that worsen her mental health and this latest stint resulting in her catatonia and worsening of mental health nearly took me down a very dark hole. I cannot change the choices she has made but I can change how I respond to it. She is still in hospital having slipped backwards last week and therefore undergoing more ECT treatments. She has cut ties with me. So now all I can do is pray that this was her 'rock bottom' and that she finds the will and strength to slowly make her way back to the sunshine. I have been in mourning for 9 years now and need to put that to rest.
