My daughter had bipolar disorder with psychosis when she was in a manic episode. She didn't think she was possessed but she had other delusions. She didn't make it through her illness. Thank you for sharing about Jakob.
Thanks. My wife Betty and Jakob's two sisters have also each had their own life-and-death encounters with their own particular medical conditions, but their cases have mostly been resolved with fewer sequelae than Jake's. Certainly other families have had challenges every bit as daunting, or worse, than we have had to deal with. But sometimes it does feel, I confess, like there's a Pazuzu out there fucking with us just for sport.
When Jakob was about 3 years old, Betty & I joined a workshop for parents of parents of children with disabilities who had just enrolled in 'early intervention' program. At the first meeting there were ~8 couples and the group leader said, "Look around the room. By this time next year, half of the couples here will have divorced, and the other half will have grown closer." It happened pretty much as he said it would. Betty & I were in the second group. So there's that, I guess.
The Pazuzus of this world no pasaran!
My daughter had bipolar disorder with psychosis when she was in a manic episode. She didn't think she was possessed but she had other delusions. She didn't make it through her illness. Thank you for sharing about Jakob.
Bipolar is a beast. My sincere condolences.
Thank you for the understanding and condolences! Received with gratitude!
Man, they should make films about your novels (by now they feel like social realism) but also about your life. You and your family are super human.
Thanks. My wife Betty and Jakob's two sisters have also each had their own life-and-death encounters with their own particular medical conditions, but their cases have mostly been resolved with fewer sequelae than Jake's. Certainly other families have had challenges every bit as daunting, or worse, than we have had to deal with. But sometimes it does feel, I confess, like there's a Pazuzu out there fucking with us just for sport.
When Jakob was about 3 years old, Betty & I joined a workshop for parents of parents of children with disabilities who had just enrolled in 'early intervention' program. At the first meeting there were ~8 couples and the group leader said, "Look around the room. By this time next year, half of the couples here will have divorced, and the other half will have grown closer." It happened pretty much as he said it would. Betty & I were in the second group. So there's that, I guess.