This morning, talking about my depression, my wife says,
“Get over it.”
“Let it go.”
“You have a great life.”
If only...
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When I was a kid I was morbidly depressed. My mom used to get angry & yell at me "Snap out of it!" Little did she know that she was one of the sources of my depression.
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Yep. Same here. Mine started when I was about 7yrs. It was misdiagnosed as other shit, off-and-on, as it persisted through high school. This was the 1960s, when children just weren’t diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder. My parents were sure I was just being lazy & weird.
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I was poor. There was no healthcare. Unless you were really bleeding severely. I have old friends who remember me in late teens, early 20's who say I would get in dark moods that scared them. I remember writing on the wall in my own blood. Shit like that.
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