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What was your own worst teen angst? Teen:14-18?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 591817" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>The 20's were worse for me than the teens, but that was when a lot of the mental illness kicked up a notch. I was miserable, erratic, married to a man who believed in order and I had none and was hospitalized for ten weeks during my pregnancy. I often wonder if 35 has problems because my pregnancy was so stressed. Because of muy many hidden and misunderstood disabilities, although I tried sooooooo hard, I couldn't keep a job and my husband would rage at me that because of me we were going to go bankrupt and I believed him. I kept trying to keep jobs. Over and over...hired/fired. Puzzled bosses saying, "I thought you were so smart when you were interviewed. But you don't seem to be able to do it." This never resolved.</p><p></p><p>On the plus side, I had learned not to care what people thought of me, although, I *did* care about certain people, like my family, and none of them ever did like me, especially my mom. I had social problems and was lucky I had one great friend who was an angel or I would have not had any. </p><p></p><p>I didn't really start getting better until my mid-thirties when I found new and improved and very proactive ways to take care of my mental illness, I learned I was codependent and worked very hard to stop, and decided that an abusive husband was not a good idea. </p><p></p><p>So in my case my teen years were a preview for the years to come and in my opinion it often is if one is mentally ill or a drug user or both. I had always been smart enough to think, "I'm screwed up enough without taking drugs to make me worse." So I never did and I have the rather amusing distinction of having never been drunk in my life too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 591817, member: 1550"] The 20's were worse for me than the teens, but that was when a lot of the mental illness kicked up a notch. I was miserable, erratic, married to a man who believed in order and I had none and was hospitalized for ten weeks during my pregnancy. I often wonder if 35 has problems because my pregnancy was so stressed. Because of muy many hidden and misunderstood disabilities, although I tried sooooooo hard, I couldn't keep a job and my husband would rage at me that because of me we were going to go bankrupt and I believed him. I kept trying to keep jobs. Over and over...hired/fired. Puzzled bosses saying, "I thought you were so smart when you were interviewed. But you don't seem to be able to do it." This never resolved. On the plus side, I had learned not to care what people thought of me, although, I *did* care about certain people, like my family, and none of them ever did like me, especially my mom. I had social problems and was lucky I had one great friend who was an angel or I would have not had any. I didn't really start getting better until my mid-thirties when I found new and improved and very proactive ways to take care of my mental illness, I learned I was codependent and worked very hard to stop, and decided that an abusive husband was not a good idea. So in my case my teen years were a preview for the years to come and in my opinion it often is if one is mentally ill or a drug user or both. I had always been smart enough to think, "I'm screwed up enough without taking drugs to make me worse." So I never did and I have the rather amusing distinction of having never been drunk in my life too. [/QUOTE]
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