Back from the never ending Migraine

Back from the pain inside my head

I have been absent for a while. I spent the last few days mostly in bed trying to resolve a migraine I woke up with Sunday morning. Then of course you take some sick leave and it is always time to play catch-up at work. I have been a migraine sufferer for at least 15 years. I started getting them at about age 12, and go through periods where they are virtually gone, and then times like now where they are a constant. I guess its back on my trusty migraine medicine for a while.
Home is still there, and still eventful as always. Our 8 year old had recently decided to test the waters of independence, and challenge his mother and I on our decisions. Needless to say it doesn’t always work out for him, because with independence wisdom, is a necessity, and at 8 his wisdom meter is not too full yet. Now today though I think I need to talk about and acknowledge the events of the week, something fairly local to me, the shootings at Virginia Tech.
It was a horrific terrible thing. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims and their families, and to me it drives a point of how little our society to this day understands mental illness. The more that comes out about the shooter, the more we learn how truly disturbed this individual was. As I hear more and more, the more I feel as though if mental illness were better understood, the sooner that this person, could have received the help they needed, and avoided this tragedy. I also think that the amount of media coverage he receives just continues, while not giving the respect to the victims.
Mental illness is a disease, and in many cases a treatable one. Yet too many people want to look away, because there is no obvious mark, or physical symptom, a cast won’t fix it. Yet a little effort can go a long way. Someone once wrote, that “Anyone can feel bad for a person who is down, yet it is our humanity, that should make us offer a hand to help him up.”
I hope to have more later, but until then…..
~Another Day

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