When life suddenly changes for the better. . ..

I am not the person to ask that right now. I just started a post on my life turning for the worse..Maybe I'll save this discussion for later..:(

My life had this happen off and on. Heartache and then becoming something liveable again. This Spring my daughter started going through a bizarre manic phase. The worst she has had in her 38 years. It lasted from April until August when usually they only lasted two or three weeks. For me and my granddaughter and grandson it was a horrible time. We had all lived together. Now my daughter had written her daughter a note stating she was moving the beginning of the next month due to disagreements and bad feelings between them. My granddaughter was several months pregnant. She and I scrambled to find a place to live because we couldn't afford to stay where we had all previously lived together. Anyway, we did find a place and my daughter went to live with her boyfriend. It was horrible to be estranged from my daughter when we had been very close and had lived together for many years. My granddaughter went on to meet and married a very nice young man. She had her baby and lives very happily now. THis would never have happened if the manic phase had not started with my daughter. My daughter was able to move back in the old apartment after three and a half months away. She and I began a dialogue again. She was having bad panic attacks and nearly bagging me to move back in with her. After much thought and sessions with my counselor I decided to move back but with he stipulation that my daughter and her counselor and myself would work up a contract incase she should ever go into a manic phase again. So she might be able to see the harm she did me and her son. This has been a wake up call for her, a horrible time without meds for her son, a wonderful period for my granddaughter and a wake up call for me as far as needed to be needed and setting up boundaries. Yes, it was darkest before the dawn. It was horrible to have my daughter saying horrible things and being so irresponsible.

i agree. with so many people loosing jobs and the economy the way it is too. my hubby got a job after 9 months of being unemployed!

I've always compared life to an elevator, sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down. However we can make the most of whatever situation we're in. We have to look at life realistically for what it is and what can happen.