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Textellas

arfie
arfie
Eldest son (34) is a master of Textellas. Be the current Textella a dream, a scheme or an eff-full scream, he can seriously belt them out. A 40 or 50 text stream is fairly light weight for him. This morning's pre-dawn Textella was the eff-full scream variety, venting about the newest invaders of his fragile sleep realm. The fragile sleep is a real factor in his life. His official dx is Narcolepsy. Fragile sleep is not a laughing matter... His solutions for his fragile sleep all revolve around population one, with self-established, Screaming Fuck rights for any who invade his mysterious sleep needs. Girl, howdy, toddlers are invasive... I stopped reading this morning's text stream when he hit the solution of throwing his sister-in-law and her fucking brat into the streets...

Sigh... I loves him like a praying mother...

Small steps, big faith and lots of prayer.

Is it safe to pull my cell phone out of the deep freeze yet?
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Don't know how you do it, arfie. Just glad you do, and with lots of love. Much support to you. And no, leave the cell phone in the freezer for now. It's fine.
arfie
arfie
Eldest Son was dx'ed in 1988. At that point, my therapy was proceeding under the "Manic Depressive" label. Also the number one mis-diagnosis for Narcolepsy. It was suggested I should also be tested for narcolepsy and participate in several genetic marker studies that were going at the time. Narcolepsy was receiving the same treatment as Manic Depression/BP. I didn't see where it was worth the price...

Sigh... So many dx'es and so little fact???

Anyhoo...

Took the cell phone out of deep freeze. No damage to the circuitry, ptsdone. :-P No more textella, either. Maybe just a rant... In larger fact, he has been more helpful than right in this enormous transition.

Forgiveness time???
Caballita
Caballita
HUGS arfie! That is so hard... getting used unrelentingly as someone else's personal venting forum... : (
DoooOver
DoooOver
Sending hugs Arfie, this drill is so familiar to me. My sister has an un-medicated mental illness and zero coping skills. I went through this sort of thing last night.

I turned off my phone.
Caballita
Caballita
HUGS to you both Arfie & Dooo... wow I don't feel so bad not handing out my number to ANYONE apart from hubby now... phones are such a direct, insistent form of communication they can be hard to ignore...
bluedragon41
bluedragon41
He needs to sleep alone in a locked room with noise-canceling headphones or a running white noise generator or something.

Toddlers are even less reasonable than unmedicated jerks, screaming gets you nowhere.

Or y'all could do what they do in my mom's psych hospital, haldol, Ativan, Benadryl...in the buttcheek with gusto...
LeoX3
LeoX3
Arfie, there's a halo waiting for you somewhere for not winging that cell phone into the air and using it for target practice. Hang in there, it's okay to leave the cell phone in cold storage. :-)
arfie
arfie
I still have the heart of an engineer, Leo. I am more likely to use the offending textor for target practice than abuse a perfectly good tool...

Do I get a halo for resisting that one???
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