A Case Worker Helped End The Bipolar Disorder Nightmare
Posted: 6:51 am on March 03, 2011
When our daughter's first case worker appeared at our door we were sceptic. What did he know about the battles of the mind? I was convinced that all she needed was prayer, and God would do the rest. I forgot that God often uses man to accomplish his purpose.The case worker had more patience with us than I did with him. I'm sure he had dealt with families like ours before, but he was very polite in his dealings with us. Samantha didn't think she needed him and we agreed.
It wasn't until
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Posted: 9:45 am on February 15, 2011
It happened weeks before our daughter had her first real break and we found out that she had bipolar disorder. We didn't know that something disparately wrong was happening in her brain. We didn't know there was anything sinister about her slightly unusual giddiness. I just happened to wake up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep.
I went downstairs and sat in my living room. I knew the only way to get tired again was to pray. I didn't even know what to pray, but my
...Read full post The Shrinking Of Self For The Bipolar Disorder Or Dementia Care Giver
Posted: 9:59 am on February 08, 2011
Shopping together with any one of my daughters had always been a source of pride for me. They were so beautiful and classy that people would stop and turn to take a second look. But my pride took a well deserved beating the year Samantha developed bipolar disorder.
It wasn't that Samantha had lost any of her physical beauty. Even after she had chopped off her beautiful curls and had strewn the hair around her room "to decorate it" the jaggedly cropped curls still framing her face only
...Read full post Christians And Mental Illness: Our Experience With Bipolar Disorder
Posted: 9:32 am on January 27, 2011
Remembering back over ten years ago to the police officer's phone call still gives me a chill. "Mrs. Flett, We have taken your daughter to the hospital. We found her at the radio station acting very strange." I was confused. I was in shock. Our brilliant and beautiful daughter, acting strange? There must be some mistake.
I was still in a state of confusion when the doctor diagnosed Samantha with bipolar disorder. We wondered what they were doing to her. We were afraid to let them put her on
...Read full post Mental Illness And The Christian - Part One
Posted: 10:16 am on January 18, 2011
I have a field of expertise I did not choose. On the contrary, I purposed in my heart to stay as far away from it as I possibly could. But many years ago I placed my life in God's hands and asked Him to chose the path that I should travel. If I was left to chose, I would take the quiet scenic route, one where I could just idle my life away. But God knows what we need to learn in order to accomplish His will for our lives and the roads we must travel to do the learning. Sometimes He leads us
...Read full post Can God Use Facebook to Answer Prayers?
Posted: 10:37 am on January 04, 2011
I knew something had to happen soon. My husband, Bruce was getting worse and worse. The dementia was progressing rapidly. Bruce was finding it harder and harder to form a simple sentence. He couldn't communicate to tell me his needs; He couldn't do the simplest tasks for himself. If this kept up I wasn't sure what would happen, but I knew that God was with us, had been with us from the start of this nightmare, and He would direct.
"Lord, I need your wisdom," I whispered. "Direct me; show me
...Read full post 2010 Peace Of Mind Didn’t Depend Upon Circumstances
Posted: 9:30 am on December 29, 2010
Did 2010 bring you the unexpected? It did for us. One month we were roaming the countryside, taking our grandchildren to a homeschool convention in Ottawa and then judging at an international student convention in Kentucky. The next month I was riding in the front seat of an ambulance while my husband was on his back, just behind me, fighting for his life.
While we were still in Kentucky, just a day or two before Bruce got sick, we were discussing a job opportunity we had been presented
...Read full post Trusting God To Guide My Husband Through The Storm
Posted: 6:52 pm on December 21, 2010
It was a storm much like the ones we've been having here lately, the wind howling in furry, and the driven snow forming white ripples on the road. The car wasn't exactly speeding through the constant whiteouts, but at least we were making some progress. There was a blizzard going on in my soul as well, and I admit I was making even less progress with it.
The situation started because our son, who had wandered halfway across the continent to the West Coast, had decided to hitchhike back home
...Read full post A Preacher Who Had Never Heard Of Advent
Posted: 1:40 pm on December 12, 2010
I was standing in line at a Christian bookstore when the lady in front of me commented on the lack of Advent inventory. She couldn't believe it. It was almost Advent and the store didn't even have a stock of Advent candles. I grinned, remembering our first introduction to Advent, and I couldn't resist giving the dear lady something else to be shocked about.
"The first time my husband was asked to preach for an Advent service he didn't even know what an Advent was."
I did shock her, but it
...Read full post Being Christlike Through The Trials
Posted: 10:07 am on December 10,
It's not hard to get self centered when you are going through a major trial. Watching your husband's physical and mental health deteriorate rapidly from strong and intelligent to feeble in mind and body can do that to you. And most people would say you had just cause.That's the way it was with me. No one blamed me if I didn't join in their excited little chats about what was happening in their world. I was in a different world, and what was happening to my husband was all that
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