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TexasBushwhacker

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11. You are right. They just don't know how.
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 01:42 PM
Jan 2014

The thing is, I just have to ask them, when they are so insensitive, "how does this help?". Many times people will use the defense of "Well it's the truth". But my question is, "How did it help?". Telling someone, "Get your lazy ass out of bed" is a lot different from "How can I help you to get up and get going?". When I was staying with my brother and SIL temporarily, I knew that if I wasn't up and downstairs making my breakfast by 6:30, he would come and get me up. That was helpful. There were several things that I had to do, instead of staying in bed in the fetal position, and that was a good thing. Unfortunately, they didn't like having me around, ill, well or anything in between. Basically, it pissed them off that I was so ill. I had to move out and I've relapsed.

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