I am trying very hard to get back on the Flylady train!!! SO I am in bed by 10:00. My sink is clean, my washer and dryer are running. I know what we are having for supper tomorrow night, Chicken Rolls. I didn’t complete all of my bedtime routine, but most of it. I picked up the toys in the living room it is a good start! I worked for 15 minutes in my zone. I cleaned off and polished our coffee table.
Pretty quiet evening here…we made cookie afater supper and watched a bit of TV. Hubby is now working on some church flyers for EASTER. I am icing my back in bed while I type away.
I start a good book last night. It is very interesting. It is called Finding Alice by Melody Carlson. It is the story of Alice Laxton a college senior who slips into the world of Schizophrenia. It is so interesting how she talks about her thought and feeling of what is going on with her. She has some very lucid moments and then is paranoid again. What a tortured world of suffering for her. I have an aunt with Schizophrenia so I find this very interesting. This book as well as the one I read a while back, I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb the main characters have delusions that they are chosen by God for a higher purpose and that is why others are trying to kill them, etc. I do recall many of my aunts delusions we would hear about and I don’t recall many of the biblical nature. I wonder if it is common for persons with Schizophrenia to have religious based hallucinations?
I am off to send a few more emails and then I will read for a while. Good Night!!!
ok, see if you can follow this! A girl I worked with at the med lib, this past winter, started talking to my brother, so her and I started talking… her and my brother didn’t work out, but in the process her and I are friends now. She confided in me she is Schizophrenic (I already knew because my brother told me) and she told me that she once had an episode at church and after that her mom took her bible away and would let he go back to church… so I am not sure if church related things do set them off, but a part of me thinks it is satan’s way of attacking them…
THat is a very interesting take on it. In the book I am reading right now…the mother and women from her church believe it is satan attacking this girl, Alice.
Interesting thought on if it is common for persons with Schizophrenia to have religious based hallucinations. I am thinking you mean, seeing Christ or having “hallucinations” of the Lord speaking? I don’t know anyone who is schizoprenic.
I absolutely LOVE Wally Lamb’s book, I Know This Much I True. It is one of my “do not lend out” books because I know I would have to buy another copy. I have read it about 5 or 6 times. Along with She’s Come Undone!
I wonder about the inner psyche. I have a godchild, who will soon be a foster child again who suffers from bipolar disorder. I fight against knowing that she can’t help the way she acts sometimes.
~sigh~ not really making any points here…just allowing your entry to make me think.
Be blessed!! Good luck on the FlyLady train. LOL I was thrown off that train three children ago!! hee hee!! HUGS!