National Network of Adult and Adolescent Children who have a Mentally Ill parent/s.Vic.(inc)

NNAAMI

"We are the children breaking the silence"

Quotes
"I strongly support the idea that there should be more support for the children of the mentally ill. Everyone is so focused on the person that is ill that they forget about us. If we don't get care to be able to survive ourselves how would we ever take care of our parents."' Thomas.

POEM

"The little girl cries out within

Hold me Protect me

Nurture me

Be hear for me Please,

I am 25 years old, a mother since I was four.

I am an adult, but a scared and terrified 4 year old little girl within I struggle with life, with life decisions.

I yearn and I always hoped that my mother would nurture and support me BE THE MOTHER.

But my dreams and hopes of her are shattered.

I'm a little girl alone.

Struggling to find herself."

"I have a schizophrenic mother." "The Depths of my soul lay open will she let me go? let me go of our past The past holds me of the madness and the darkness I survived. The emptiness of my soul that I have been left with scares me, of my own sanity.

I question it!

I Pray I will not turn out like her."

Samantha.

Copyright NNAAMI April 1997. no printing or reprinting or distribution of this document without the expressed Authority of NNAAMI.

Contact Mr Paul McKillop, convenor NNAAMI:

Phone / Fax +61 3 98893095.
Mail NNAAMI P.O. Box. 213.
Glen Iris. 3146.
Melbourne, Victoria. Australia.
Email PMckillop@emis.com.au

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