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[__ Prayer __] parents going out of town

Christ_empowered

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My dad and I were riding around, and he said he's taking my mom to the beach for a couple days. I know, I'm 32 years old.

Its just that the people in the neighborhood can be so aggressively mean. It gets worse when my dad is out of town and the worst is when its just me at the house. A couple times, people have been in the yard, and I suspect people have come up to my bedroom windows, the ones that face the side yard, and the windows in the adjacent room. Not good.

I'm fairly despised around here. I am on probation for a serious misdemeanor for the next 2 years. The initial charge was a felony, and people around here are forever yelling about "your public defender" and "you got a FELONY!," etc. That and "you're going to (state prison for the "criminally insane").

For once, I'm not super scared, nervous, etc. I think I'll be fine. They'll be back for New Year's Eve, so it won't even be that much time all to myself.

Still, given the circumstances, I am ((once again)) asking for prayer. Thanks. :)
 
Prayers for you & your parents, my friend.

Keep the draperies closed on the main floor windows during the time your parents are gone.

Also, do a search online for motion detecting lights that can deliver a signal inside when the lights are activated. You might even investigate a recording/filming device that will be turned on each time the motion detecting lights are on & shuts off when the lights go off. It's good to know price range, where they can be purchased, and if there are companies within your area who could install the systems.

Set up a tape recorder by your bedroom windows, turning it on at night to capture any yelling/talking from the neighbors.

Take care of the necessary preparations so you don't have to go anywhere while your parents are gone.

You also might talk with your Dad about contacting the police department to request additional drive-by's - especially at night - while your parents are gone. Just for that bit of extra security.
 
Hunker down for the time they're gone. Make sure you have enough food, drink, cigs, etc so you don't have to go out. Keep yourself distracted with movies, videogames, music, reading etc. Do not respond to anyone coming to the door unless you know who it is. I have to do the same as you this spring when my wife and son go to New Zealand. But I gotta get by for 2 WEEKS....yikes.
 
Christ_empowered said:
My dad and I were riding around, and he said he's taking my mom to the beach for a couple days. I know, I'm 32 years old.

Its just that the people in the neighborhood can be so aggressively mean. It gets worse when my dad is out of town and the worst is when its just me at the house. A couple times, people have been in the yard, and I suspect people have come up to my bedroom windows, the ones that face the side yard, and the windows in the adjacent room. Not good.

I'm fairly despised around here. I am on probation for a serious misdemeanor for the next 2 years. The initial charge was a felony, and people around here are forever yelling about "your public defender" and "you got a FELONY!," etc. That and "you're going to (state prison for the "criminally insane").

For once, I'm not super scared, nervous, etc. I think I'll be fine. They'll be back for New Year's Eve, so it won't even be that much time all to myself.

Still, given the circumstances, I am ((once again)) asking for prayer. Thanks. :)
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You got it....prayers going up.

Heavenly Father, protect and keep safe Christ_empowered from all agents of the adversary. Lift him up for your Glory Loving Father.

In the Name of Your Holy and Precious Son Jesus Christ we pray,

Amen!
 
Thanks, Pegasus.

I need all the prayer I can get. I'm fairly certain I'm safe in the sense that nobody will lay their hands on me. See, when I lived in a more urban area, I got bashed on the head with a pipe by some angry ghetto resident. Fun times. As one might imagine, that makes me kind of nervous when people around me are getting aggressively mean. :-(

Thanks for the prayers. I'll keep you and the other people of CFnet up in prayer :) .

Merry Christmas!
 
They should be back sometime tomorrow. So far, so good. I heard that one set of neighbors yelling a bit tonight, but it was short lived. Something about "he's got schizophrenia!" and "he consented!," and that was the end of that. Awesome.

The Lord has put more peace in my heart and made me feel more secure in general. I thank you all for your prayers. Imagine waking up and finding that your family loves you, that connection is now getting strong(er), but you're surrounded by people who ridicule you and have info. about you from psych records and "experts" choosing to "share their opinion," etc.

I've been doing some reading, and this really --does-- happen to other "mental patients," especially us so-called "trouble makers." This is a separate topic, but I'm beginning to see that I didn't happen upon a couple of "bad apples"--1 shrink who terrorized me is highly regarded--so much as I was homely, low status, my people "weren't important", and "uppity," so this is how they've chosen to deal with me. --sigh-- In all likelihood, this same set of "professionals" have destroyed lots of peoples' lives, and I'm only where I am now, safe and recovering, by the grace of God.

OK. Thanks again for your prayers and support. :)
 
All is well now. My parents rolled in maybe 30ish minutes ago. Nothing intense. They were happy to be home, my mama chatted me up a little bit, the dogs (predictably) freaked out about their return and...that was that. Oh, my parents ran to a nearby convenience store and got their booze. I got a small cherry coke out of the deal. We're having shrimp and rice for dinner.

Life goes on. Thank you for your ongoing prayers+support. :)
 
Thanks again for the prayers, support, and understanding. I'm beginning to think that one reason so many people with mental problems stay mentally ill is because society keeps us down, keeps us "sick," etc. I guess that's another thing to file under "just the way the world works" and/or "welcome to the real world."

My parents seemed tired, but in good spirits. The dogs and cats were fed+watered, and I even did some cleaning in the kitchen (yes, I need a gold star by my name for that one).

Its beginning to dawn on me that my "Bipolar I w/ psychotic features" OR "Schizophrenia, with a mood disorder" may not be an actual --disease-- , not in the sense that it will show up on a brain scan or on blood work, or what have you, but in my case it may be the only way for me to get the compassion+space+forgiveness I need to facilitate God's work in my life.

I love my parents, but if I was considered mentally normal, whatever that is these days, they probably wouldn't be supporting me and I don't think we'd be this close. I wouldn't be on disability, I wouldn't have a counselor, I wouldn't be "in recovery," etc.

Which isn't to say that I'm --not-- mentally ill, because as "mental illness" goes, I fit the criteria. Not as much as I did, maybe one day I won't, but for now, I do. But I don't know that "mental illness" is really a disease, disorder, etc. so much as it is a way of being that's not functional and often seems disturbing to others. Plus, in my case, there's my low status in the community. 'Schizophrenia' is a convenient label to slap on somebody you don't much care for, anyway.

Ugh. Antipsychiatry has no real answers. It isn't the 70s, lol. I just think maybe mental illness is not so much a brain problem as a soul problem, and I don't know what the answer is. Even if you get right with Christ, learn to obey, etc., madness, sadness ("depression"), etc. can still be problems. What then? Pills? Talk to an "expert" for 45minutes-1 hour at a time? CBT? DBT? Group therapy? Shock therapy? (wait...not so much...).

Sorry. I'm rambling. I just got to thinking about this with my parents coming home because, well, if I wasn't considered "mentally ill," I wouldn't be living here, I wouldn't be on disability, I wouldn't be close to my people, and I wouldn't get as much forgiveness, tolerance, and patience from my people as I do now. Its crazy, really. Because I'm less "crazy" now than I was back when I said I was crazy, and the experts said I was NPD. Now, I'm inclined to think mental health, inc. isn't a valid branch of medicine, and they say I'm crazy. Funny, that.

ugh. Thanks again, everyone. :)
 
Ah, you've reached another major step in your healing, my friend! You realize that if you hadn't experienced all you did in the past, you wouldn't be at home, building an ever-strengthening relationship with your parents. With all the healing and growth by the grace and mercy of our Lord, you would have been out on your own, struggling to deal with the lack of closeness with your parents.

There are some aspects in life we each may never know the why's they have occurred. But one fact remains constant: our Lord loves us so incredibly and so perfectly!
 
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