26-05-2022 07:44 AM
26-05-2022 07:44 AM
Hi,
Last Monday night 6pm a support worker was bringing my daughter home from Irish dance lessons, we live a short distance from a regional city so there is a highway where 100km is required to drive. The support worker did not want to hit a small rabbit so hard swerved, lost contrl of her car and it rolled to its roof, with my daughter on board. Its Thursday of the same week and we are not coping. Daughter is physically fine and doctors are amazed not a single injury to her body, but daughter was taking driving lessons has been for some time and we were gaining proper driving limit speeds, previously too slow.
I'm feeling really dark and low and can't seem to come out of this feeling, a doom feeling. I have my own mental ill issues. Does anyone know about a mind loop that is addicted to sadness. I focus on the sadness and hopelessness of it all, is this peptide addiction? I'm always feeling like a victim, I also think I am indulging in maladaptive daydreaming. I can't stop hugging my daughter it could have been so different. I think I have sick peptides.
I kept telling the support worker, be careful of wildlife, because we do have kangaroos that jump in front on the road, but this tiny rabbit was out on the major highway.
I dont know how to help or supprt my daughter, she is ASD with general and social anxiety. I dont want to increase her fears with my own anxiety, but also want to keep her safe. The hopeless feeling is all overpowering.
26-05-2022 08:35 AM
26-05-2022 08:35 AM
@Dark_Olena hi hunny i have a son with asd plus mental illness and know exactly where you are coming from ....we are looking at supported living for him and i am terrified..., asd pple are so vulnerable
26-05-2022 09:58 AM
26-05-2022 09:58 AM
26-05-2022 05:41 PM
26-05-2022 05:41 PM
@Dark_Olena that is terrible about carers using your daughters phone ! i dont know if there is a place where we can rate safe homes for pple with disabilities. fyi there is a disability organisation in mount druitt which has recently come under scruteny for a variety of reasons. you might want to google it.
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