Posted by Willful on August 2, 2010, at 17:32:46 [reposted on August 5, 2010, at 15:13:53 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Was Told To Take No More Meds From Someone In » Phillipa, posted by violette on August 2, 2010, at 13:30:23
Phillipa doesn't need to justify her questions and hesitations-- but I do know, as someone who has in the past put in what I thought was a lot of time and energy trying to respond to her confusion, and to encourage her to take what she seemed to think would be positive steps that she was afraid to try-- that it might be important for her to review some of her habits.
It isn't healthy when you avoid taking risks and chances because you can always find some person who'll tell you they had a bad experience-- or thinks you shouldn't do it. In my experience, Phillipa is very likely to ask you for all sorts of help and then turn around the next day and act like she hasn't a clue what to do, and is at a complete loss and needs someone to help her with advice. Or suddenly, someone else has made some negative comment about the drug, or she heard something bad about it-- and eveything you thought you had communicated to her, during the back and forth, goes out the window.
I'm sure she is a caring empathic person, but she seems to be at a terrible disadvantage in that she allows herself to be blown around by the random, uninformed, and who-knows-how motivated input of almost anyone-- neighbors, docs she runs into in the emergency room, ex husbands, someone she talked to in the supermarket, etc
I wish she could act more decisively and I don't mean to hurt her feelings or tell her she needs to justify anything to me. What I hope is that she'll realize a bit that she needs to take these risks, and try some meds that might help her, even if she's afraid of some unforeseen difficulty.
Willful
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