All Lights Were On??

[grahameb]

I have to smile at what you said,Grahame. " I don't know why I'm saying this ",,because,reluctantly,,I've uttered a few things myself to try and twist the whole thing around by involving a third party,,but in my mind,it's not working,my brain won't allow it,as it reverts back to Sheila alone and all the worries of the world that lay on her shoulders.
Yesterday,I realised only too well,,that my friends' sick daughter got annoyed with her mother because she ( the mother ) couldn't " hear the voices " that she was hearing.! The daughter denies that there's anything wrong with herself and has threatened her mother for trying to get her sectioned this year.
We know full well what to expect with this condition,,particularly if they're not medicated,as in this case,,or only partially medicated as Sheila was. Unpredictable is the key word. So without any doubt in my mind,Sheila would have gone for her mother,,literally all guns blazing.

I can appreciate what you are saying lookout. It is very tragic, because the mentally ill really do believe that others are against them because they don't see or hear the things they do.
My friend Alan (alias gavin)has a son. About 30 years ago his son was staying at our place to look for work. Whilst here he joined the Territorials. He then decided to go home. He looked a bit disollusioned and went quiet. Apart from that none of us noticed that anything was wrong.
But a week after he got home he suddenly burst into a fit of violence and turned on his father. His father was of course able to defend himself and therefore subdued his son. But from that point on his son has been a schizophrenic and has to be subdued with drugs, which they have to change the dosage every so often. His parents are both in their eighties now and I suspect that they won'y be able to look after him much longer. Fortunately his sister and her husband are prepared to take over from her parents. She does know what they are committing themselves to.

[killingeve]

Re SC's looks I think if she was repeatedly told she was attractive she couldn't help but wonder where her looks came from and it may have made her feel different from her adoptive family knowing her looks didn't come from them. 

Some argue beauty can be measured by facial symmetry based on Pythagoras' theory which represents fertility.

[susan]

Hello N/N  trust you to get complicated in order to confuse me for punishment over hairy legs/arms/chest

[lookout]

I can appreciate what you are saying lookout. It is very tragic, because the mentally ill really do believe that others are against them because they don't see or hear the things they do.
My friend Alan (alias gavin)has a son. About 30 years ago his son was staying at our place to look for work. Whilst here he joined the Territorials. He then decided to go home. He looked a bit disollusioned and went quiet. Apart from that none of us noticed that anything was wrong.
But a week after he got home he suddenly burst into a fit of violence and turned on his father. His father was of course able to defend himself and therefore subdued his son. But from that point on his son has been a schizophrenic and has to be subdued with drugs, which they have to change the dosage every so often. His parents are both in their eighties now and I suspect that they won'y be able to look after him much longer. Fortunately his sister and her husband are prepared to take over from her parents. She does know what they are committing themselves to.

Grahame,,that is so sad,,as the prospect of my friends' daughter,remains in the balance,,and where you're friends are in their 80's,,my friend is in her 60's and has already taken her granddaughter on,I can't see her also looking after her daughter too. They're already in a flat away from the childs' mother,as they don't want anything to do with her. I'm the nearest to the daughter,,and I know that the house is being repossessed next month.The house where the daughter once lived,and expected everything to be the same as it was 20 years ago.! My friend just handed the property over to her daughter,but because she doen't live in the " real " world,and hasn't paid any bills,I don't know what's going to happen,,unless my friend stumps up £1,000 to avoid her daughter becoming homeless.There's no reasoning with her and thinks it's her right to stay in the family home with the family there.
My friend can't afford to run two places and look after a teenager too,,for no extra,so it's a good job she works,,though for how much longer, I don't know that either. 
This woman was an accountant,,and I would reckon that she could possibly have suffered post-natal depression and with a lot of women,,it's left until it mutates into something more serious,,as would seem in this case. Over the counter drugs to " keep you going ",then when they don't work,,,,something stronger and then it's the start of a downward spiral unless you seek help.
Her mother isn't heartless running away from it.It's a mixture of fear of the unknown,as well as trying to shut it out of her mind,,as underneath this facade,I know that my friend loves her daughter very much.