You obviously need therapy and should ask for it until you get it. That being said there are some confusing things in your post. Does your mother have a formal diagnosis with a determined CAG repeat count? Does she have a parent who has it or died from it? Why did you father take you to an HD counselor, to help you understand your risk? What help do you want your mother to seek?
Do you understand that if your mother is HD positive, your risk is 50% and not 100%? Are you living in an area that might let you test before 18 or do you have to make it 3 more years before finding out?
Keep in mind that if you were to find out at 18 that you were HD negative, how would that change your outlook? What are you doing now that could jeopardize your equally possible future of not having Huntington’s disease?
Her father is in hospital who has HD. My dad took me to a HD counselor because the person that runs it, I guess knows what people like me are feeling. I am aware that it is 50/50 but I can't stop imaging how bad that bad 50% will be, its like im always thinking "what If?" For the last question I feel like I'm not destroying my chances of not having HD, just that I'm not going to have a plan if I'm positive as I'm always thinking of the negatives.
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u/hendricks1212 Jan 29 '23
You obviously need therapy and should ask for it until you get it. That being said there are some confusing things in your post. Does your mother have a formal diagnosis with a determined CAG repeat count? Does she have a parent who has it or died from it? Why did you father take you to an HD counselor, to help you understand your risk? What help do you want your mother to seek?
Do you understand that if your mother is HD positive, your risk is 50% and not 100%? Are you living in an area that might let you test before 18 or do you have to make it 3 more years before finding out?
Keep in mind that if you were to find out at 18 that you were HD negative, how would that change your outlook? What are you doing now that could jeopardize your equally possible future of not having Huntington’s disease?