Prozac is a Girl's Best Friend
Feb. 24th, 2006 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saoneFound out last night that a teenage relative a couple states away has been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. As the now second youngest person in the family to have mental problems, it falls to me to welcome her into the fold.
Seriously.
I've got both mothers, hers and mine, and a grandmother wondering if I could, I don't know, talk to her, or something. I guess I know where they're coming from. I developed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when I was twelve, and I've lived with it for around 16 years now, and I guess I'm doing good, but... I just don't know. I'm proof that things will get better, and that you can live through it, but I'm really not... role model material. I'm sure as hell not peppy, or motivational, and I depend way too much on sarcasm to get through my days. The poor kid was almost hospitalized, so she's obviously not in the best of states, and I can do subtle, but when talking about mental stuff I tend to come on like a bulldozer.
"Hey, when I had depression so bad I almost couldn't leave my room I decided to go to a psychiatrist instead of offing myself. EMULATE ME!"
Cripes.
Seriously.
I've got both mothers, hers and mine, and a grandmother wondering if I could, I don't know, talk to her, or something. I guess I know where they're coming from. I developed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when I was twelve, and I've lived with it for around 16 years now, and I guess I'm doing good, but... I just don't know. I'm proof that things will get better, and that you can live through it, but I'm really not... role model material. I'm sure as hell not peppy, or motivational, and I depend way too much on sarcasm to get through my days. The poor kid was almost hospitalized, so she's obviously not in the best of states, and I can do subtle, but when talking about mental stuff I tend to come on like a bulldozer.
"Hey, when I had depression so bad I almost couldn't leave my room I decided to go to a psychiatrist instead of offing myself. EMULATE ME!"
Cripes.
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Date: 2006-02-24 07:25 pm (UTC)I don't mind Monk, but boy did As Good As it Gets brassed me off something fierce.
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Date: 2006-02-25 04:35 am (UTC)Hey,
Indeed! My OCD was made even more fun by a good old dose of Christian "Gays are burning in Hell" guilt thanks to my Catholic School...
Never saw AGAIG... Helen Hunt, she frightens me, ay!