Help for my Son

[Indigo9142 at aol.com]

Bud -
 
Thanks for your post. It's remarkable, isn't it, knowing what we each carry  
in our hearts and that we are still able to move through the day with love and 
 (some semblance) of peace?
 
My 15 year old daughter, who has survived a diagnosis of terminal  liver 
cancer and a subsequent liver transplant, drug addiction,  self-mutilation and 
years of severe anxiety and depression related to the  PTSD from her incredible 
medical history, is (it seems) about to be diagnosed as  bipolar. What a relief 
and what a sadness...to finally have psychiatric help  from someone who truly 
gets it (after a decade of searching) and also to have  the knowledge of what 
this diagnosis reflects - the "brilliant madness" of it.  As a parent, I have 
learned over the years that I cannot keep my child alive, no  matter how 
deeply I love her, no matter what a skilled advocate I might be, no  matter how 
much (or who) I know. It seems, as you appear to know only too well,  that the 
challenge for each of us, our children included, is to hold what we are  given 
with open, cupped hands, finding the ways in which the grief and loss,  fear 
and despair, can be redeemed; turned into something fragile and beautiful,  in 
its own way.
 
I'm interested, for my own sake, in the responses you're getting. And I am  
particularly curious about the difference between psychodramatic work and  
"constellation work" that was indicated in a recent response to you. Can someone  
clarify this for me?
 
My thoughts are with you.
 
 
Michael Kennedy
 
"I had the idea that the world's  so full of pain, it must sometimes make a 
kind of singing"....Robert  Haas

 



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