Stress has been my constant companion for the last 20 years. I get up with it and go to bed with it. It seemed to arrive and attach itself to my life the day my oldest adopted daughter, LJ arrived. What a pistol she was. For 13 years not a day went by without her picking a fight with me within 5 minutes of getting up. Sometimes physical but always verbal. There was nothing I could do to make it stop.
7 years after LJ’s arrival, KA arrived on the scene. He would scream 1 – 5 hours a day at the top of his lungs. Yep, that was fun. Fortunately that only lasted a few years. Then a year after KA, SA arrived, jolly little hyper guy that he was. Extreme brand of hyperactive. He was happy enough, he just didn’t sleep. On a good night he would sleep 2 – 3 hours. So you can see life was never dull at our house. Add to this home schooling and you can just imagine how STRESS arrived and took up permanent residence.
As the adopted kids got older, their issues got bigger and scarier. Mental illness and RAD was running rampant. Heck, right now SA, 16, is living in a residential treatment center a couple hours from out house.
7 years after LJ’s arrival, KA arrived on the scene. He would scream 1 – 5 hours a day at the top of his lungs. Yep, that was fun. Fortunately that only lasted a few years. Then a year after KA, SA arrived, jolly little hyper guy that he was. Extreme brand of hyperactive. He was happy enough, he just didn’t sleep. On a good night he would sleep 2 – 3 hours. So you can see life was never dull at our house. Add to this home schooling and you can just imagine how STRESS arrived and took up permanent residence.
As the adopted kids got older, their issues got bigger and scarier. Mental illness and RAD was running rampant. Heck, right now SA, 16, is living in a residential treatment center a couple hours from out house.
Needless to say, I have stress to the max. Even went thru a period of panic attacks and super anxiety. Ended up a few times in the hospital thinking I was having a heart attack but it was actually just stress that had pushed my blood pressure up. Not FUN!!! One time my blood pressure was 230/130. I was a stroke looking for a place to happen.
The cool thing is that right after the last ER visit I found a product that I honestly feel has saved my life. I started drinking Limu Plus and my panic attacks and anxiety are a thing of the past. If I feel them coming on I just drink another ounce or 2 of Limu Plus and calm right down. I love the stuff. I don’t know if it would work for you like it did for me but I think it is definitely worth trying. And heck, there is a money back guarantee. For me, I feel I would either be dead or disabled with out it.
I don’t have a clue what is going to happen with SA. I don’t know where he will be living 6 months from now. I have no idea whether he will ever be safe to come home or not. But I know I can handle it without having any panic attacks or disabling anxiety. Plus my blood pressure will stay down and normal. Yeah!
So, if you can’t get rid of the stress, you just have to figure out a healthy way to manage it. Because life just goes on and on.
Until next time,
Charyl
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