Hi, everyone!
I just wanted to leave you a quick administrative note about immediate support and feedback.
While I want to help everyone that I can, I have personal limitations. I am a mother of a child with ADHD who has been transitioning off one medication and onto another. I am very active in my kid’s school (put in over 10 volunteer hours last week for a big event at his school). I am starting a new part-time job for which I have been in intensive training for the past month. I write a professional blog for Adoption Under One Roof. I write this blog. I go through periods of struggling with emotional flashbacks where I have trouble doing any of the above. And now I have a cold, which has me feeling miserable at the moment.
Unfortunately, as much as I want to provide helpful and timely feedback, I cannot always do it right away. This is one of the reasons that I plug Isurvive so frequently. Isurvive is a safe place where you can get quick feedback because there are hundreds of child abuse survivors online at any given time who can respond to your needs.
I do eventually respond to every question that I receive, but I cannot promise how quickly I can respond. If you need immediate feedback, please post your question over at Isurvive. Isurvive is a message board for child abuse survivors, and it is very supportive.
I found Isurvive in December 2003, and the friends I made over there were instrumental in helping me heal from my issues. I serve on the Board of Directors for Isurvive today, and I have become good friends with Lori, who is the owner and operator of Isurvive. You are in good hands over there.
In the meantime, I have saved copies of the questions that people have left for me over the past month, and I will be responding to them on my blog. So, please be patient with me as I “unbury” myself from a backlog of questions.
Have a good weekend!
– Faith
Blooming Lotus 
Faith,
Thank you for all you do. Your blogs are wonderful and insightful. This has helped me many times get past a hump or burden or life or whatever.
If one of those questions was written by me, don’t worry about answering it. Get yourself healthy, and write when you can.
A very sincere and heartfelt thanks.
Thanks, Anita.
I am getting there. I went to bed last night by 5:30 p.m. and slept straight through until the alarm went off at 6:00 a.m. Do you think I needed the rest?? :0)
I am trying to take it easy today. We’ll see how successful I am. It is really hard to rest with a young child around.
Take care,
– Faith
Thanks Faith. I am grateful to have found you and I am glad you told me about isurvive.
Best wishes for you Faith,
Palucci
Wow! I am impressed by all you do. I wish I had the energy! I did at one point in my life, and I see it coming back slowly, but this past year with all the DID and Depression stuff has sucked the life out of me.
By the way, we also have a child with ADD. She is our 5th grader. It was a struggle getting the school system to see it when she was in 1st and 2nd grade because outside of some impulsity and some occasional squirming she is not really hyperactive. We finally got her diagnosed in third grade, and we decided to try medication in 4th grade, and she is doing absolutely great!!! She also had a very structured teacher who was big on student responsibility and full of high expectations and my daughter learned so much from her that I think that was helping as much as the medication.
Good luck to you, and if you ever want to chat, you know where to find me.
Secret Shadows
Ive try getting an account on isurvive but i can never get an activation email 😦
Simon,
Please email me your email address and proposed screen name for isurvive. You can find my email address by clicking on “About Faith Allen” in the upper right corner of my blog. I will email the board owner of isurvive and see if she can get this straightened out.
– Faith
Thanks faith 🙂
I finally got registered.