I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the support, the advice, and for being so understanding... 🙂
Regarding travel, she has absolutely no desire to head to the coast with me, let alone go on a proper trip... everything about it just feels overwhelming to her right now.
The relationship between my mom and dad is quite complex, though in a way, it’s actually very simple when you look at how most men and women interact... Dad is everything to her and she is everything to him, but I don't know, she was just one in a long line of people during those years when he was still in his prime, and nowadays they function more like close friends, almost like siblings.
She has always been incredibly jealous, whereas he tends to be more laid back and cool about things.
They usually get up around the same time, somewhere between 7:00 and 8:00 AM, have breakfast together, check their blood pressure, take their heart medications, blood pressure pills, and hers for the depression... They cook lunch, sometimes she handles it, but if she's feeling particularly unwell, then he takes over. They eat, then they rest, watching soap operas or whatever is on TV, and by 8:00 or 9:00 PM, they are heading to bed... It's quite monotonous, I know.
That is, of course, when she is doing okay. When she is having a bad period, she just retreats into her bed and won't come out for days on end... She grumbles about having to get up to eat something, claiming she has no appetite, or so she says.
I don't know, sometimes I can't help but feel that the harder we try to help, the worse she gets... The doctors and psychiatrists tell us that she is the only one who can truly help herself, simply by making the decision that she wants to be well. They claim it only takes one mental click for her to become her old self again.
But my own intuition tells me that everyone is focusing on treating the symptoms rather than the cause. These medications, these antidepressants... there have been times when they've sent her crashing from a great mood down to such a low state that she was shaking uncontrollably and couldn't even walk, all within just a few hours.
In truth, nobody seems interested in the actual root cause, the core of it... Perhaps if that were finally cleared up, this cycle wouldn't keep repeating itself every few years.
A few psychiatrists have brought up the idea of psychotherapy involving hypnosis, but no one has ever stepped forward and said clearly, "Listen, let's try hypnosis to find out what's really bothering you. This is the only way."
Has anyone here ever tried psychotherapy with hypnosis? Does it actually yield any real results?
Regarding travel, she has absolutely no desire to head to the coast with me, let alone go on a proper trip... everything about it just feels overwhelming to her right now.
The relationship between my mom and dad is quite complex, though in a way, it’s actually very simple when you look at how most men and women interact... Dad is everything to her and she is everything to him, but I don't know, she was just one in a long line of people during those years when he was still in his prime, and nowadays they function more like close friends, almost like siblings.
She has always been incredibly jealous, whereas he tends to be more laid back and cool about things.
They usually get up around the same time, somewhere between 7:00 and 8:00 AM, have breakfast together, check their blood pressure, take their heart medications, blood pressure pills, and hers for the depression... They cook lunch, sometimes she handles it, but if she's feeling particularly unwell, then he takes over. They eat, then they rest, watching soap operas or whatever is on TV, and by 8:00 or 9:00 PM, they are heading to bed... It's quite monotonous, I know.
That is, of course, when she is doing okay. When she is having a bad period, she just retreats into her bed and won't come out for days on end... She grumbles about having to get up to eat something, claiming she has no appetite, or so she says.
I don't know, sometimes I can't help but feel that the harder we try to help, the worse she gets... The doctors and psychiatrists tell us that she is the only one who can truly help herself, simply by making the decision that she wants to be well. They claim it only takes one mental click for her to become her old self again.
But my own intuition tells me that everyone is focusing on treating the symptoms rather than the cause. These medications, these antidepressants... there have been times when they've sent her crashing from a great mood down to such a low state that she was shaking uncontrollably and couldn't even walk, all within just a few hours.
In truth, nobody seems interested in the actual root cause, the core of it... Perhaps if that were finally cleared up, this cycle wouldn't keep repeating itself every few years.
A few psychiatrists have brought up the idea of psychotherapy involving hypnosis, but no one has ever stepped forward and said clearly, "Listen, let's try hypnosis to find out what's really bothering you. This is the only way."
Has anyone here ever tried psychotherapy with hypnosis? Does it actually yield any real results?