Thanksgiving weekend....

We had a wonderful weekend. I haven't posted in a few days since there is nothing new to update about. We are back to daily meltdowns that do not end until Faith is passed out with exhaustion. We still cannot figure out what triggers them, I wish I knew. Faith can feel them coming but we still cannot stop them. She just cannot calm down. Lately she is screaming at the top of her lungs...it really hurts our ears. She is yelling at us to help her, but there is nothing we can do, so it is an never ending circle of arguments with her. "Mommy you are mean, you will not help me", "I will do anything I can do to help you"...followed by a bunch of possible solutions to try and help her. The hard part is it stresses everyone out...I am the one that wants to try different things, approaches, or anything since nothing is working. Renae is the opposite, she doesn't want to and thinks I am saying she can control it. It is tough to make sure we do not argue under these stressful situations. It becomes very easy to take out my anger and frustration on anyone around. The key is to make sure you talk about these situations when all is calm and no one makes decisions in haste and frustration. We have appointments on Wednesday with Faith's new doctors. I am excited to have someone offer some fresh perspectives on Faith. One thing that is also excited is that almost weekly someone contacts us to talk about something similar in their family. Even though every mood disorder is different one common denominator is we all are scared, we all have no one to talk to that understands, and we all are glad to meet someone to share our experiences and stresses with. It is nice to know there are other families out there that are walking our walk, not just talking the talk. KrisandRenae