Saturday, January 11, 2014

The Rant that should have been sooner...

I do not try to rant on my page for people getting in my damned business about me. i just put my hubby in the hospital one more time. He has no other thing to really do with it, but have the horrible trying time of being manic and hurt. Go ahead and piss me off again. i have to teach my kid not to be pissy at "crazy" people because of the attitudes in my family alone. I never would go against them, but some of them need to grow the fuck up and know it is not all about them either and when they do wrong they should help get the wrong right. I should not have to. I love my family do not get me wrong but some of them need to really grow the fuck up and get a life worthy of bitching about. My son is my world I hurt him bad for all the hurt i was given and it made it that much worse, but I love the hell out my kid and at 15 he does tell me maybe. Won't give that one up he will be embarrassed if he hears i say he does. He is a damned good kid to me even though I did what i did and is really doing so well with the hurt i caused him and he caused me is no more for me. he means the world to me and I am tired of the stigmatization type of shit that goes with the "crazy fucking word crazy" Now i am done. Poor or not i pay my way more than others and I do the best i can why mess that up for him more when I am trying to damned his thinking of me trying to want to die before. It hurt me too. I wanted to end his hurt and pain. Did anyone ask me that. It was the whole thing I wanted to end his and my hubby hurt from me. so go suck eggs to people who cannot handle the damned truth. That was a past rant that just came flooding out. Hugs to my friends for being there too. it meant a lot

I posted this on Facebook thinking about what I said and know for a fact that this country is so screwed up sometimes in the priorities of the people it sucks. And the bad thing is the people that really do help do not get enough attention to how they help even when it is anonymous it should be said they are here. When i was down at he shelter there were some churches who had their word to get out, but they truly thought they were trying to make a difference by helping and were so much wanting to take the hurt these girls had and scrub it clean with the help of the lord and to go on and and let the past go and go on to better. Departing just a bit from the religious tone, the whole gist i got being on  the outside of it is that they were helping and they cared. Most people see homeless people as drug addicts or alcoholics or mental patients who were too sick. Not true i met some people that had kids that were having a hard time due to either a job loss or just that one person had gotten in a bad rut like i did. It is not all like it said to be. Just because a person perceives a place or a person a less than does not mean they are. There was a wonderful guy who was extremely different because he has seen war and it got him. I used to give him cigs and just a hello to make his day less hurtful. He smiled several of the times i seen him even though he was talking about the booms of bombs. Some were scared, I was not. For the life of me i do not ever think if you were in my shoes you would think the way you do now. if have been you know it already and bless your hearts you made it upwards. I did, but i left some good women down there hoping for the best. 

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

When things may look bad
Keep your hope
It will turn around
Things can look up

You just want to feel 
Like things are on the right track
When things keep going wrong
Is there hope

Yes there is 
What goes down
Does come up
You have to see that somehow

Even if it is just a glimmer
Or a small shard
Of hope in your mind
Grab it and go

It can get better
even in the worst of times
Hope is al we got
Hope is what we need



Rebecca Smith           1/27/11


I still hope and when there seems to be no hope i keep hoping and when i see my world changes for my better.

Monday, July 22, 2013

https://www.facebook.com/MentalIllnessInTheFamilyHowDoYouCope


my page on Facebook. gotta look at it hopefully I can get better stuff on there. 

Birdie1120

Saturday, July 20, 2013

my shoes are worn

My shoes are worn
From every step i had to take
To get to the fact
I feel like I am never going to be worthy
Of the life I want to live
Quiet, no pain and being just me
When will this happen?
When I decide to walk away from it all
Take my husband and maybe my son
My son is being swayed by the people
Who make it seem I am crazy. 
Why is your decision to deem me crazy?
Have you lived my life?
Have you fell through so many cracks
You feel broken and sore
From all the mental beatings 
I have gotten in a few months
Those who know me, really know me
Know I am close to walking away from this society
Just find a small place where i can be with
The ones who do care or actually love me
Walk in my shoes and you find all holes
The wearing so bad i need new ones
This is not in my future at all
I don't deserve what everyone wants
I life that has meaning to me 
It was just taken
And made to mean nothing
Or to be laughed at, and then dismissed
Like my pain means damned nothing
I am not sure which is worse,
The mental anguish, or the physical pain...
Sometimes the mental anguish is more than I can handle
I go on and just want peace in my life and to know
For all the fighting I did, it was worth it.
Becky Smith
this is something i wrote when i was angry with the docs for not listening to me. I still have some trouble, but they are seeing that it is more real than "fake" as was said. It is just to get a diagnosis is like pulling teeth now, back when i was in my 20's i would have gotten a diagnosis sooner than i have now. I hope still it does not get bad before they get it. At least they are seeing the numbness is real it is still weird to me, but i am more with it when it comes to that.


I have noticed the last few months when i was having all kinds of trouble that I am not allowed to get angry. I am not allowed to get help for something i knew was wrong with me, and if i protest, I am wrong. Plus when I do need help, i get treated poorly by it seems everyone. There are a few who stuck by me, and I am glad for those people who gave a shit. Yet in reality, there were a lot of people who seemed to take my right to get help and make it out to be my mental illness, not a real problem. When did my bipolar disorder dictate how i get care from all concerned. I am not supposed to fight when I know I need to have something that is compromising me, is getting worse each time i get plagued with symptoms. Well...uh lucky for my stubborn pride, or maybe I was smart enough to see this was not normal for me to get all these unrelated symptoms and in a few months time to keep at it. Let me look at this again.
I get nerve blocks done and the doctor who took care of me basically labeled me as an pain pill addict. (that is the way anyone would have seen that). Why because I have had probems with pain, and while this was going on, certain family members felt it was ok to steal my pain meds. When I said something I got my balls busted for even accusing them at that time. Come to find out they not only stole mine, but decided to steal my husbands meds I was going to get rid of when there was a way to safely. Then I was getting symptoms of my diabetes (first time had symptoms) and it was not the fault of the doctor who gave me the nerve block. I was off my diabetes meds for almost a year, sugars were so good I did not need to check everyday. I am on them again and my sugars are still not right. 
One month after that, I had gotten symptoms of a stroke. Slurred speech,tingling and numbness going on. I had to use a walker and a cane to walk around. I was not happy with the fact that I had no signs of stroke and here I am trying to talk normal again and walk normal as well. I was doing good for a bit where there was minimal use of the cane and my speech got better. That was not so bad considering what happened after back hat.
The second round of symptoms were more aggressive in nature. I had gone for back pain which was the start of this round. i did not get a CAT scan ti see why my spine hurt in my upper back. I was given drugs to calm the pain and muscles and then was told it was most likely my muscles hurting. I said quite clearly it was my spine. did not matter they already diagnosed me. then the second set of symptoms started with a vengeance. my heart was racing and i went to the ER at the insistence of my home health care nurse. That is the when I was noticing the treatment I got was a little on the nasty side.they were going by what the EKG said and acted like i was causing this stuff going on. I went on four mor times to the ER asking for them to help me find out what is causing this. i got put off and said i was dealing with anxiety and panic attacks. The truth is I was anxious, but it was not like e to get it this bad. If they had looked at my records for my mental illness, they would see it was not one of my problems.The one time i went on a Sunday I had complained of pain in my chest on and off and it hurt. well I wanted to make sure this was not going to turn into a heart attack my bro had two. I was scared out of my mind because I had a normal EKG again yet all of a sudden my back hurt so bad i was crying for help then a minute or two later it went right to my chest. It felt like a Mack truck was hitting me in my chest. I was blown off as if I was acting like it hurt, not that it did hurt that bad. They were treating me again like it was a panic attack. Stop for one moment and drink this in, I had one panic attack when my son was about 1 1/2. One not several. Here I am again wondering if anyone will give mee the time of day to see why these things are happening and the tests are normal, but they are happening. They took the easy way out and said it was my mental illness.
Second major bout if symptoms were off the wall as well. I felt like I was filled with fluid in my head and around my chest. I am not sure what to call what happened to me, I never really thought until now to see what it was. I was not responding to commands as well as i should be i could hear everything and i felt the pain too. Who knows why that happened. I do know when I tried that doctor got mad because i was not moving when he wanted and was not responding as good as he wanted. I could not i tried and it was horrible to hear the doctor say I was faking and tried to get me into psych. After everything started to settle in me I was able to get my eyes open and then it seemed like a piece of cake to get the right side going, the left side not as good. I had gotten mad because my legs were not working but i was feeling things still.it was like my brain was not working right to get the moving going in the left side not as much as the right. but i was clear as bell telling my mom as best as i could that i heard the doctor say what he said about me faking. I can't even describe the feeling except defeated. Then the other feeling of wait my kid and husband need me I can't let hem down. While this was going on my nephew was steady saying he was going too help then did the minimal to help. He usually asked his gf to see what I needed when he was too lazy to help me. I got some conflicting thinking going on there. Is he snowing me again or is he really trying. On top of that I was fighting people in my family over this whole thing. Was she faking or is she having a breakdown. Neither as I know now. All this time my husband was in the hospital due to the nephews thinking ti was funny to get my husband going when he was trying to get to the bottom of his stuff going on.
Well after all that happened i was still having minor troubles with my body doing what it wants. I had someone keeping an eye on me, he was getting pissed at how i was being manipulated by my nephew. The fucked up part is my nephew who was sticking to me like glue with trying to "making it right" all the while just finding a place to crash ad do what he wants. His gf is so snowed ny him she thinks i am lying when he is. I mean he lies so much his lies are getting her hurt. He got kicked out for his being dumb enough to think i would not notice he was doing the same shit as before when I threw him out that time. That is a whole other story in itself.
I went to neuro doc and was said to get a psych doc to prescribe meds that get my in an awful place. They all think I was being non compliant when I was advocating drugs did not help me. Got a second opinion and he said jut mild degeneration do Pilates I finally went back to ny reg doc and pleaded with him to get me an MRI of my back. it was a major source of pain, by that time i was weary of all the docs who i have seen. I may have jumped the gun on that, but i had good reason to. he gave me the order for the test and come to find out what I had thought was related to the herniated discs i have was the right thing. I gave in to him and was glad i was perstiant about it. now i do know that all the stuff happened to me was most likely symptoms of the discs being herniated. 
That is it. i am not going to go as far to say the docs names, it does not matter anyways the only way to change or rectify the whole thing is to let he docs know they were wrong or at least know I fought the fight. As hard as I had it i kept my head enough to get the things done.

worthless is not a good feeling

When it gets to the point that we feel worthless ourselves, then we have to begin to think why and how did it get this bad that we feel our self worth is not as good as it should be. We lose sight of what the main goal is for us, when we let the thinking go south for the winter. and forget we all make mistakes and we all have a story to tell that makes us stronger than maybe someone else. In reality we are just trying to justify how others see us when we know full well they will think what they want anyways. If we feel worthless, it is because we did something really wrong, like ummmmm, get up in the morning. 
For the people who feel they are not worthy of being here, it is a feeling that we get. It is  something in us telling us things are not all right. Find that thing and let it heal. It will do wonders for you. Mind you I am talking experience only. No education could tell em this anyways, it is something only you or me can get to. Healing the mind will change your perspective on how you deal with feeling worthless, as not making it go away cause it hurts. My reality as of now is when I felt worthless at times, I thought is was the end, Now I know I just needed to heal the things that were so damaged, I thought i would never get better. Well feeling worthless...i figured to let it teach me to understand why the pain is so bad and to let the sucker out of me and face what is bothering me the most. 


In the days to follow this week especially, I need to get on the ball to get some things taken care of by the end of the week hopefully. What i am going to do is make sure I have everything I need to get some things done. I will make a list and check it twice then make sure all is correct and ready. good luck to me.


In everything we do
In every thing we want or need
When someone treats another badly 
the punishment should fit the crime
It does not mean we have to be just as bad
It does mean if a person has the balls to 
Treat others who are not like them
Constantly egging on fights, and then some
Then you have to know 
This person will not care who is right
Justifiable fallacies are not good to use
Yet we still get hurt by the ones who use the fallacies
In ways to depict some people
As less than human or even stupid
In response to this type of persona
Fighting can help when you have the knowledge
to know they are just ignorant
More than they treat you
Respect has to be earned 
It is not just there 
you have to prove you are worthy of respect and dignity
When you have shown no respect to anyone
Blind of your own wrong doing 
does not mean you get off scot free
Just wait and see
honesty and integrity have more pull
then deceit ever will 

I have been looking at my other blog to get the ones i like the most on here. Here is one of the ones i posted.