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Have you had a hard life?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.No, I've been brought up in a very loving family, have been blessed by meeting my husband & our healthy baby son being born. Times were hard when we were kids as there wasn't a spare penny to rub together but we had a nice home, food on the table & clothes on our backs & most importantly lots & lots of fun!
My Mum's had a hard life, diagnosed with MS 25 years ago & struggles with life from day to day.
One of my brothers commited suicide when I was 16.He was described by a syciciatrist as being the most severe case of scizophrenia he had ever see.He threatened me saying he would kill me when I was asleep.He had to be taken away for all our safety but commited suicide when we were on holiday in North Wales by jumping off Menai Brigde.My Oldest sister died of an unknown virus two years before that.My other 4 brothers are all scizophrenic but 3 of them are very mild.The other one must be locked up all day.I find it very difficult thinkking of my brother in there but I understand he cannot possibly be allowed out.I try to look to the future and think positive.I would say I have had a hard life but when I think of my brother I realise I am in some ways very lucky.
My cousin has had a very hard life but you would never guess it by talking to him.
He was out at a bar one night (15 years ago), a fight broke out near him and someone shot a gun. The bullet ricashede and hit my cousin, he instantly was paralyzed from the waist down...this was 3 months before his wedding day. He is still paralyzed till this day, and will be for the rest of his life. Several years after that he lost both of his parents and they were only in their 60's. A year later his wife was diagnosed with cancer, she received treatment, the most a person can receive in a lifetime and it went into remission. Doctors said receiving that much radiation can cause Leukemia in the future. Soon after, his sister (37 years old) wasn't feeling well around chirstmans time. She went to the doctors and found out she had kidney stones. They blew up the stones with a lazor. A peice of stone got into her bloodstream and caused an infection in her blood, she became very ill from the infection so they induced a choma....two weeks later, just after Christman she died while she was in the choma. It was a freak incident. Now his sister was gone.
Recently he found out his wife has cancer again, but this time it's Leukemia.
After all he's been through, he still wakes up and lives his life with a smile on his face. And even though they couldn't have children because of his accident, they were able to adopt a baby from China. And that is their pride and joy, and one of their many reasons to keep fighting through, and to just keep living.
Hmmm this is all relative really isn't it? I would say I have had hard times in my life, and there have also been very good times. My life is not yet over so I am pretty sure I will get both good and bad times to come.
I know of people who have had horrendous pasts, and also people who claim to have had them but are not nearly so bad..whilst of course to them they were still bad.
sexyrussian you have never mentioned all this before ~ mental illness runs in my family so I have had quite a lot of experience with it. It can be crippling and at worst, devastating.
Just a little nitpick but I would have thought you would be able to spell psychiatrist by now ;o)
Without wishing to sound insensitive, the above are all localised events or traumas that lead to the roller coaster of life and it's emotions. Yes we have all been affected by something whilst growing up (myself included) it doesn't mean I have had a hard life - in fact I hope I have a lot more of it to live. I would consider that we in the Western (developed) world are rather fortunate that we have the means to overcome these things in life.
If for example, taking some of those eg's above, you were in an underdeveloped country it is very unlikely that you would have access to good medical care, bereavement counselling, victim support, self help groups or people qualified and willing to assist the disabled or handicapped. On top of all this, you are generally extremely poor, malnourished or starving and in constant threat of violence, abuse and death.
Sometimes I think that people who mope about thinking they have had a hard life should go and live in one of those places for a while.