It's what we all have been trying to do, right? If we're totally honest with ourselves..."Bloom where you are planted!" Its been my personal motto the whole 22 years my husband was in the Air Force. "What?? We've only been here 18 months! What do you mean we have orders?" Most Air Force families got to stay an average of 3-4 years at their base; our average was 2-3 until we got to Texas...we were here SIX whole years before my hubby retired. We ended up staying so our four children could stay in the same schools with the same friends they had cautiously grown to love. Cautiously, because history had taught them that just as they became close to friends, it would be time to leave, and leaving friends was painful. It was good for their relationships with each other, though...the four of them have always been very close. So, I did my best to bloom. I bloomed as a newlywed far away from my parents and siblings. I bloomed as i burned dinners and struggled to make new friends as a 19 year old in my new stage in life. I bloomed as I followed my dear husband overseas with a seventeen-month old son and two-week old daughter on a 13 hour flight into the unknown. I bloomed in my new environment that I grew to love in Germany, the one I didn't want to leave when it was time to come back to the States with a newborn. I bloomed for the 18 months at our third base where we lived long enough for me to carry and deliver our fourth child and move on to base #4. That took a lot of blooming!! I bloomed in the desert, and by the ocean. Now I bloom in Texas...I bloom big and proud, as a Texan of 16 years does!
Now the question I seek answers to: how does one such as I, the one labeled ten years ago with Major Depression and Bi-Polar II "bloom"? What does one with these diseases even do to bloom? That will be what we discuss together, learn about, and help each other with in our therapy through this blog. I hope that you will comment and help each other along with me. I look forward to long and hopeful discussions with you!
Now the question I seek answers to: how does one such as I, the one labeled ten years ago with Major Depression and Bi-Polar II "bloom"? What does one with these diseases even do to bloom? That will be what we discuss together, learn about, and help each other with in our therapy through this blog. I hope that you will comment and help each other along with me. I look forward to long and hopeful discussions with you!
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