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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 624026" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>Therein lies the heartbreak. I felt my heart hurt when I read it. I don't know how to detach from that...I'm not even sure I should detach from another person's suffering that way? Maybe just be with it.</p><p></p><p>difficult child called me yestarday...blazing headache, sore throat, fever. I thought...strep throat...and the consequences of untreated strep, even in this day, include valvular heart disease and kidney disease, maybe the more so in a drug user...so I encouraged him to get his throat swabbed and yes indeed...strep. </p><p></p><p>And then he started crying on the phone...couldn't get his coworker to do his shift for him, afraid he would get fired if he missed it, heard that some one was trash talking him at work and now he doesn't want to go in anyway, he used to love that job but now he feels stabbed in the back, no real friends, lost his SSI by missing some mailings...he was full of grief and insecurity. I"m not sure why he isn't ALWAYS full of grief and insecurity, that seems to me that that is what Maslach bottom layer is...but he isn't.</p><p></p><p>There isn't any more to that story. I let him cry, told him he might feel better tomorrow (when he has to work), that actions are louder than words and he can undo any trash talking by performing well if he wants, and that I saw another ad for the same type of work (bicycle food delivery) a few blocks away...and that is all. Cause he is stuck there at level one, with no intent or desire to move that (except when he is sick). and I am stuck as his mom, heartache for his shuffling self.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 624026, member: 17269"] Therein lies the heartbreak. I felt my heart hurt when I read it. I don't know how to detach from that...I'm not even sure I should detach from another person's suffering that way? Maybe just be with it. difficult child called me yestarday...blazing headache, sore throat, fever. I thought...strep throat...and the consequences of untreated strep, even in this day, include valvular heart disease and kidney disease, maybe the more so in a drug user...so I encouraged him to get his throat swabbed and yes indeed...strep. And then he started crying on the phone...couldn't get his coworker to do his shift for him, afraid he would get fired if he missed it, heard that some one was trash talking him at work and now he doesn't want to go in anyway, he used to love that job but now he feels stabbed in the back, no real friends, lost his SSI by missing some mailings...he was full of grief and insecurity. I"m not sure why he isn't ALWAYS full of grief and insecurity, that seems to me that that is what Maslach bottom layer is...but he isn't. There isn't any more to that story. I let him cry, told him he might feel better tomorrow (when he has to work), that actions are louder than words and he can undo any trash talking by performing well if he wants, and that I saw another ad for the same type of work (bicycle food delivery) a few blocks away...and that is all. Cause he is stuck there at level one, with no intent or desire to move that (except when he is sick). and I am stuck as his mom, heartache for his shuffling self. [/QUOTE]
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