Support and compassion

Just want to make a post of support and compassion to everyone struggling with mental illness during these extraordinarily difficult moral and spiritual and physical trials that we’re all going through. And also to those who don’t have mental health challenges but are nonetheless experiencing significant distress from everything.

I’m one of the ones with psychological vulnerabilities, and have been in the thick of trying to pray through the pain, find help and stabilize again this past week. I have been blessed to have loving support from my family, and to connect with a good priest and a good doctor on a miraculously short timeframe.

But not without deep suffering, including a bad prescription drug interaction experience that led to a hard, sleepless night of whole-body trembling and other side effects while my body cleared the medications.

I don’t like the pain of the process, and I get so frustrated and impatient with my brain’s haywire-ness when it interferes with my ability to think clearly, read with good concentration, make plans and carry them out.

So I’m praying for God to help me and you and all of us through this, and sending my love to everyone trying to stay the course even when we stumble.

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