It is a cold November day and Melody has just walked past me.
I GASP! - She is a human skeleton!
I clamp my hand over my mouth to keep from screaming out loud from the shock. She looks like death….
“OH GOD-PLEASE HELP HER”!
I run into my room, fall on my knees beside my bed and cry like I have never cried before… wracking, wailing, sobbing that seems to last for hours. My daughter is going to die and I can’t go on without her.
OUR MILLION DOLLAR FAMILY-By Tina Kulifaj
Things aren’t falling into place at all, in fact, they are falling apart. At times my husband and I become very angry with each other.This was very uncommon for us, but we are emotionally depleted from our jobs and come home knowing the stress level is going to rise dramatically once we get there.
Our once happy home seems like a prison to everyone in it.There are times that we both feel like leaving to escape from all the madness and sadness…but we know we simply can’t leave.We are the parents and our kids desperately need us.
“Where did we go wrong” is a question we often ask ourselves…
“What is happening to our million dollar family”?
SHOOTING STAR-By Patrice Skovgaard
I remember snapshots of that time, coming down into the kitchen from a sleepless night to make hot chocolate and finding her there like a little squirrel, making peanut butter toast and eating it by the loaf, unable to stop even when there were others in the kitchen.
Her eyes were glazed and crazed looking, as she would lick the peanut butter off the knife in gobs.
Robyn was a star, a brilliant shooting star.Her illness snuffed out that light completely. But now, years later, her light shines again, not as brightly as before, but steady and enduring.
MAYBE THE BAR WAS TOO HIGH- By Jo-Ann Smith
The eating disorder was the ugly manifestation of depression.
It was a symptom that became an obsession... my own obsession was trying to figure out why. As the mother, I tried to understand what was hurting her. I tried to understand why she couldn’t be happy. “What caused the void”? “What could fill it”? “What had hurt her so much that she couldn’t get past it”?
As a child, Ali was tough and even though she had a lot on her plate, she accomplished it all but…
“Maybe the bar was too high”!
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