PARENTS!!! CUT YOURSELF SOME SLACK!!!!
Tears rolled down my face as I sat on the floor of my closet listening to Marissa on the phone. I had finally put words to what I was feeling inside and she was responding to what I had shared. I barely knew Marissa, but she and I were both parents. We had both gone through and were going through grief. She had lost her son to death. “For me it is kind of like a death in that, I grieve the death of the hopes and dreams that I had for my sons and daughter.” I told Marissa. Recently my son who has high functioning autism, also started having psychosis. He is 18 years old and now like his older sister, who has had a diagnosis of autism, since childhood, was showing signs of mental illness as well. Marissa said that she hoped that I had reminders up around my house that told me to go way out of my way to CUT MYSELF SOME SLACK!!! I told her that I am typically very hard on myself. She said that she was the same way! Recently howe...