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Bigmack1960
Bigmack1960

My sister-in-law has had 3 ECT treatments with very little improvement. As for myself I'm just trying to get by. I want out of some commitments. I think the stress of it all is beginning to get to me. The problem is I use the commitments to keep me from isolating. Catch 22. Tonight I have to take my wife to her great nephews Christmas thing at school. I'm assuming it's a big elementary school because of its location. I'm afraid there will be to many people. I don't do well in large crowds. I wish she would start driving again. But that's a whole other situation. 

arfie
arfie
Catch 22, indeed. My number one justification for isolating is that all of the available options have some fatal flaw or another. Here in my retirement years I often find myself bored and isolated enough to miss the pressures and obligations of supporting a family.

Are there ways to share the chauffeuring job? Supporting somebody who can't drive in today's carbaric world can, indeed, get heavy.
johnnyboy1960
johnnyboy1960
Please tell your sister in-law to be very careful with ECT Treatments. I had them done around 10 or 12 years ago and had a bad reaction to them. They triggered chronic debilitating insomnia. I have suffered ever since
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