Posted by stargazer on April 15, 2007, at 21:57:34
In reply to Re: So when did your depression and/or anxiety start?, posted by Phillipa on April 15, 2007, at 18:27:51
The kids today speak right up without any reservation when they are depressed which is a good thing I guess except that meds have become the answer for everything and I'm not sure this is a good thing. Alot of what they feel is just being a teenager and going through very hard things for the first time.
I hid my depression for years because my mother minimized there was anything wrong with me and said everyone felt that way. And there were no good meds then so even if you were depressed the treatment was not very good. You had to be really sick before you brought it to someones attention.
And we never got any sympathy for feeling sad or unhappy, my parents had too many kids to be able to listen to me when 4 younger brothers and sisters were screaming for attention and my older sister was sick and in the hospital, so I was alone watching the younger kids. It is depressing to think about it even now.
SG
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