The second part of your life, you learn more about who you are and who you want to be. You learn what honor, trust and love are and what you can do with them. You can build others up and you can tear them down, which ever you are looking for. During these years you also struggle with inner battles, battles that can only be fought by you. Who you rely on and believe in will determine the outcome.
Even before you are ready to graduate into the world we call adulthood, you begin the never ending battle within that can take its toll. You think you have it all figured out until the rug gets pulled out from under your feet. Time and time again just when you think you'll do fine. You begin to wonder when things would go "your way", but it never seems to come.
All of these things everyone has to go through at some point in their lives. Even the healthiest minds have trouble with it sometimes. Add MI into this equation and it is even harder, if not seem impossible to the individual. As an adult you do not have someone there to remind you to take your meds. You do not have one to tell you that you need to get some more sleep or your emotions will become harder to deal with. No one to remind you to eat healthy or to eat at all.
I dread this time for my child. I do not want to see her hurt. I do not want to see her struggle. I do not want to see her in pain. No parent does. This unfortunatly is something that we have to sit back and pray that they remember just how much we love them and come for help when they are ready. I am not ready for this time in my life, it has only just begun and I am scared for my child. Scared that she will go so far down the road before realizing I am here for her. All I can do is pray and pray I will do.
