Worried about my own...
Feb. 6th, 2008 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
locus_ofcontroI have depression and a very poor idea of what that looked like for me as a child.
And I have a 5year old. Who when she's like she was tonight...sounds a lot like what goes on in my head when I haven't taken my meds.
Hearing a 5 year old child say "no one loves me, tomorrow will be a bad day too because today was a bad day, my head gets all full of mad and I don't know what to do"...these are things I have heard in my own adult head. I can manage those thoughts and know them for the messed up chemical bits that they are in my brain and know it's time to adjust my meds....she's 5.
How do I explain to a 5 year old....How do I know...it's the same and not the stress and anxiety of just being a child...
How do I help my OWN child?
**gah...I'm having a want...all the research out there is locked behind journals!!! MUST find time to hit up the university.**
And I have a 5year old. Who when she's like she was tonight...sounds a lot like what goes on in my head when I haven't taken my meds.
Hearing a 5 year old child say "no one loves me, tomorrow will be a bad day too because today was a bad day, my head gets all full of mad and I don't know what to do"...these are things I have heard in my own adult head. I can manage those thoughts and know them for the messed up chemical bits that they are in my brain and know it's time to adjust my meds....she's 5.
How do I explain to a 5 year old....How do I know...it's the same and not the stress and anxiety of just being a child...
How do I help my OWN child?
**gah...I'm having a want...all the research out there is locked behind journals!!! MUST find time to hit up the university.**
