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Hi Kristin,
thankyou for giving me thr courage to keep going on here, speaking to you and other on here make me feel so welcome and let me know their are good people in the world.
i know i always think why can't people live their own lives too, but some people are just unable to.
please feel free to ask me any questions, as most have been asked of me before and i am always willing to speak no matter how hard the topic is, i find that hiding my past experiances only makes the problems worse, speaking about them does not make me feel better, but it is comforting to say them out aloud.
i have read up a lot about PTSD and all other mental health issues, my father before his death was at uni studing Psycology and i had to write all of his assignments because he had Motor Neuron Disease and was unable to do anything for himeself, i was his full time carer from 16 throguht till his death when i was 19, i was at school (which is across the road from where i live) and mum called me if she needed me to help her lift him, so i was in and out of class a lot in the last 2 years of highschool.
well to fill in time, from 2005 - 2012 all i did all day was literally look at the wall in my bedroom, i had no income and was unable to go anywere and the only thing i could afford was to sit in my room, it was not so bad, the days, weeks, months and years went by pretty quick power was so expensive i could not turn on my computer for more than an hour per day i could only afford 1 pair of shoes per year so i could only walk once per day. life was pretty tough up until a year ago, when i was put on a DSP.
i do read, now a lot, i have all of my books on smart phone and read most of the day and night, i read biographies, uni books, computer engineering books, and some fiction books.
i usually read one book every two weeks, but because i find it extremly hard to concentrate i can only read a few pages at a time.
other than that i do some home renovations of a weekend and do some woodwork, i used to build model sailing ships, but my hands shake to much to do them now.
thankyou for speaking to me, it means so much.
take care
Jacques
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