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Nov. 3rd, 2002 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleA good friend of mine who lives out in Arizona was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital five days ago. I have been worried about her for some time--grief and loss have dogged her for years, as has a sense of crushing responsibility for so much in her life. (More, I think, than is healthy for her, or than she should take on.) She is a very strong person, and very smart, and capable, and unfortunately she has an unbending spirit. She's been telling me for some time that she's feeling tired, washed out, depressed, and so forth, and last week I think she finally broke.
Happily, her strengths remain her strengths. She has rallied to accept where she is and why she is there, and to see this an opportunity to grow and recover from her pain. She was feeling and sounding better today than I have heard her sound in some time, which makes me very happy. I just hope that she doesn't have to stay in hospital for more than the required two weeks, so that she can be back with her son.
When I heard this on Thursday, I was really upset. I spoke with her fiance about this, and he seemed very sad and hard pressed. Friday, however, he sounded much more positive, I think in part because his beloved had decided that her life wasn't over, and that things might work out, but also because people from their church had rallied to the cause in numbers, and were giving him the support that he needed. I felt a lot better about that.
Happily, her strengths remain her strengths. She has rallied to accept where she is and why she is there, and to see this an opportunity to grow and recover from her pain. She was feeling and sounding better today than I have heard her sound in some time, which makes me very happy. I just hope that she doesn't have to stay in hospital for more than the required two weeks, so that she can be back with her son.
When I heard this on Thursday, I was really upset. I spoke with her fiance about this, and he seemed very sad and hard pressed. Friday, however, he sounded much more positive, I think in part because his beloved had decided that her life wasn't over, and that things might work out, but also because people from their church had rallied to the cause in numbers, and were giving him the support that he needed. I felt a lot better about that.
