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To: Poet who wrote (208)	4/9/2000 10:13:00 PM
From: Neenny	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 503

Poet, I just finished with my off handed replies to post's on this board. Saved this one for last, as it was more serious in nature, but still OT I have a neighbor woman who about 9 years ago started acting really irrational. She believed people were talking about her, and spying on her. On night she took her infant son out the bedroom window.....and into the woods because she said someone was after them. It was a very sad situation. Through that time I remained friendly with her and her family. She spent a month at an inpatient treatment center. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A lot of people shunned her and her family. Some wondered how my family remained friendly with them. For us it was an out reach not only to her, but to her husband and children to not shun them. We invited them to dinner every Sunday to take some of the burden of caring for his family off the husband. I found I was able to accept her antics much more compassionately after her diagnosis, as I knew it was not a game she was playing. But her issues were really a physical ailment of the brain. She is on lithium, and her quailty of life and that of her kids is much more stable when she on the medication. It becomes very apparent when she stops taking it. Being that I am not involved with her in a professional manner.....I was able to come along the family in this way. I must admit, she eventually turned on me...She screamed outrageous accusations at me during a Sunday service one day. I feel sorry for her...mental illness is such a misunderstood illness. She has chosen to not be friends with my family any longer. Should she decide to be friendly again...I would accept that, knowing that she truly does have an illness. So I understood your post completely!! Jane