I’ve been numb for some time, I don’t know exactly when feeling left me if it was instantly or if it was a gradual process. The years of feeling too much and too deeply while trying to be the logical thinker in the relationship. When Carmelo started getting sick repeatedly I learned very quickly that…
The Weariness of a Mental Health Caregiver
Weariness is the only word that describes it, and it seems to small a word to really encompass what this road feels like. Now more than ever the mental exhaustion of trying to carry it all really weighs heavy on me. Some days I feel I am on the brink of a break down myself….
The Madness of a Warrior
I’m still a warrior, the battle is still raging as I’ve accepted it’s a battle I will always be up against. I find myself emerging from year after year of fear, uncertainty, and such deep sadness. The war has changed me, I am wounded I am not the brave solid person that ran into the…