I have been thinking about responding to some comments heard the other night in chat about how chat should perhaps be for patients only and we hear so often (I say it too sometimes!) that 'we don't belong' in the chat room - ex patients and carers sometimes feel they are 'frauds' and some patients feel they are less worthy of being in the room as perhaps others who are more seriously ill.
But really…
My Dad died on Saturday and I was in pieces Sunday and Monday and still very weepy Tuesday and Wednesday that family are worrying and think I may need help. I thought it was normal that when you love someone so deeply that I would be feeling quite intense feelings that are painful and that I wouldn't have expected anything other than to be expressing that this is the most devastating thing ever but others are holding…
