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This disease finally made me cry

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@georgescraftjr ❤️
Diagnosis isn't everything. Daily, minute to minute, I am dealing with people who miscommunicate, make up fantasies, live in them, project them onto other people, and get angry when no one will play their fantasy game with them (projection identification). Too often I am dealing with groups of people all in agreement that their collective fantasy is Reality.
Or, maybe everyone else knows something I don"t, and it is I who suffers from an undiagnosed clinical condition. It may be pushing ME to the edge.
Sincerely
Don Quixote
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georgescraftjr | @georgescraftjr | May 15 9:43am

@shmerdloff

Thanks for always reminding me to face reality--my reality.

You are heroic--as is @memoriestomoments.

In contrast, I am a lost cause, dreaming "the impossible dream, fighting "the unbeatable foe," bearing with "unbearable sorrow [t]o run where the brave dare not go."

I am still hanging in there even though my friends tell me it's time for George to go to a care facility. Too often, I feel that caregiving is killing me; but I am still convinced that :

"...I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star!"

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