General Chat

I've got in such a state over this now I am going to have to move to another thread - there is no way I can go to sleep now, I've got myself too worked up!!!

Ann,

Interestingly enough many of the people on my course have infact had personal issues that they have dealt with and that is why they feel they can put their experiences to good use. Some from very differnet backgrounds, some with kids and some without. At 23 I think I would have made a better Social Worker than I would now! I was much more patient back then! Instead I want to be a nurse, a midwife preferably, maybe then babies like this little one would have been spotted on the maternity ward but then with a 6 -24hour stay postnatally it would be surprising if anyone spotted anything!

love T.x

Please don't get over worked up Ann.

thanks for that Theresa and I do hope I haven't offended you or anyone else on here but this is such an emotive subject and I just can't bear the thought of a little baby being so unprotected - I am a Christian but find myself asking where was God?

thanks Errol hun, but it's so awful isn;'t it? A little defencless baby and we let it die

God does not protect, on the contrary He gives us freedom of choice!

we did NOT let it die Ann - if I thought that I would spend my life weeping about poor babies and children in Dafur

(I prefer he or she to "it")

i was sickened when i heard the news to-day about the preciuos little baby that that vile and evil father had killed, the social workers were probably keeping their eye on the mother because of her mental state,
i had a son diagnosed with paranoid schizaphrenia six years ago never been in hospital, in a full time job and two months moved away from home, the carers went to meetings where we were told that they have no feelings for other people tell lies all the time are loners and do not care about other peoples feelings, it could not be further from the truth where my son so far is concerned six years down the line, maybe they were believing the father and not the mother, may that precious little baby sleep with the angels may the father rot in hell and spare a thought for the mother who must too be going through her own hell.

oh crumbs Errol, I cannot look at film footage of Dafur now - the NSPCC ad on TV is heartbreaking too - I could honestly weep buckets forever. Why do people have to be so cruel - man's inhumanity to man. I know we should face up to it and not bury our heads in the sand but what can we do?

Interesting Ann. I too am hopping. My 2 eldest daughters heard about this story and the eldest one who is as placid as a lamb, said he should die very painfully with bits of his anatomy removed with blunt scissors. She doesnt make comments like that lightly.

Got to agree with Errol in this case. God gives freedom of choice. But ask the question did this 'man' (for want of a better name for him) ever have the remotest idea of God.

love T.x

John - they should never have made such a sweeping statement to you about your son. Having worked at our local psychiatric hospital for nearly thirty years I got to know many schizophrenics and they can be really lovely people - they are afflicted by a terrible illness and their main problem seems to be the fact that once they start to feel better they all seem to stop taking their medication.

I'll do that Crougar and I'll sign all sixty!!!

thing is Ann, we can do things- instead of whinging on a message board we should be saying things, talking, influencing publicly

you're right - I think another letter to my local newspaper is called for - better not do it now or it will be far too inflammatory
I've got one in this evening's paper on attacks on fire fighters - I really think I'm turning into Victoria Meldrew

course I will Crougar

Ann XX

Ann,

Thats exactly the prob with my Uncle. In 28 days time once his section is up he will be back on meds and 'ok' again. Then he will be released again for the whole cycle to start again until the inevitable happens and he picks an argument with the wrong person and gets fatally injured.

What is the solution?? It has taken 4 years to get him into a hospital to restart his meds. In the interim he has lived rough and sent all his invalidity to some poor 'person' abroad. He wants nothing to do with any of the males in the family, my Gran is now dead and I am the nearest female.................in Ireland...he is in the UK.

love T.x
with loads of questions!

It's a problem isn't it Theresa - they need a really good case worker who will follow them and make sure they keep taking the medication but for some unknown reason it always seems to be the case with the majority of them that they won't. It must be so hard for you as a relative to watch it happen every time - why don't they understand?

I think I shall now go and take my medication and go to bed. You see I have to keep taking the tablets cos I have clinical depression believe it or not, but if I take the tablets I'm fine. Pity they didn't stop me getting in a temper incases like this though!!!!!

The really sad thing is that he is a very intelligent man (IQ 178) and a talented musician. He was a great chess player too. I remember having detailed conversations with him as a kid on the world.
Something it seems (following the stone through the MP's window incident) he is still very interested in!

love T.x