Support, Love and Understanding

What do we all need in our lives?  We need support, love and understanding.  

I'm lucky.  I have all of the above.  I have something that a lot of people who are going through a mental illness or learning disability that many others going through the same situation as I am don't have.

I have a Jeff.  

I have a Patti and Rick .

I have a Grant and Darlene.

I have a Kait and Erin.

I have a Brandy and Russel.

I have a Robin and Dusty.

I have many friends who support and love me, regardless of my "issues".  

I have access to good health care, relatively inexpensive medications and fantastic doctors.  

I have access to information and resources.

I have support from all sides of my world.  

I have love coming from all over the country.  

I have understanding from all corners.  

Now, in this new and overwhelming time, all I need is just a little bit more support, love and understanding.  I need a little honesty.  I need someone to say "you're straying a bit.  How are you feeling?"  I need a little extra help.  I need a little extra encouragement.  

In the past few days, as I've posted and spoken about my ADHD, I've gotten a range of responses.  Only one negative.  The rest have been "Oh wow!  I had no idea!"  to "I'm really glad you're talking about this!"  Any comments about medication and other ideas have been purely out of concern and how they wish to help.  And I appreciate it all.  Never fear to offend me.  I'm an open book.  

And I need a little more confidence.  I will need the water wings and life preservers taken off and forced to drown a little bit.  I'm going to need to just sink or swim a couple times, but I will need someone to be available to save me once in a while.  But I know, that in my times of being overwhelmed and unsure, I will have someone nearby to pull me up, and that's what I need most.  Just the knowledge that someone is there.