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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 463485" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'm with you there, Janet. I got NO help. I was so scared of going crazy, because I knew that I was not "normal", that I used to read through the encyclopedias (remember them?) looking up diagnoses to see if I had them. I was convinced once that I had schizophrenia and once I was terrified that maybe I had multiple personality disorder. But mostly I thought I sounded like I had "Manic Depression."</p><p></p><p>Nobody understood. Nobody took depression seriously in a kid (and I was SO depressed that I couldn't hardly get out of bed. Heck, for my entire thirteenth year, I was too depressed to smile. I never smiled...at anyone. I had to finally decide to try to snap out of it by beginning to smile again). I'd have panic attacks in school and scream and run to the nurse's office, and the kids would tease me and call me crazy. That didn't help. The teachers were very hard toward my behavior.</p><p></p><p>If you went to a psychiatrist back then there was a stigma and for the most part they would tell you that your mother was no good. I knew, even back then, that the theory that depression (at least MY kind) was caused by poor parenting was bogus. I just didn't buy it...I knew I was born that way. </p><p></p><p>Those were lonely, lonely and scary times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 463485, member: 1550"] I'm with you there, Janet. I got NO help. I was so scared of going crazy, because I knew that I was not "normal", that I used to read through the encyclopedias (remember them?) looking up diagnoses to see if I had them. I was convinced once that I had schizophrenia and once I was terrified that maybe I had multiple personality disorder. But mostly I thought I sounded like I had "Manic Depression." Nobody understood. Nobody took depression seriously in a kid (and I was SO depressed that I couldn't hardly get out of bed. Heck, for my entire thirteenth year, I was too depressed to smile. I never smiled...at anyone. I had to finally decide to try to snap out of it by beginning to smile again). I'd have panic attacks in school and scream and run to the nurse's office, and the kids would tease me and call me crazy. That didn't help. The teachers were very hard toward my behavior. If you went to a psychiatrist back then there was a stigma and for the most part they would tell you that your mother was no good. I knew, even back then, that the theory that depression (at least MY kind) was caused by poor parenting was bogus. I just didn't buy it...I knew I was born that way. Those were lonely, lonely and scary times. [/QUOTE]
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