First and foremost, please allow me to apologize for my lack of understanding (ignorance, if you will) concerning the subject of mental/emotional disorders. I merely expressed what I always "thought" about the subject. Boy howdy, was I ever wrong. Thank you for the slap upside my head, it was deserved.

Contrary to popular opinion, there are those in the world who have never been subjected, even remotely, to some of the things I have read in the threads on this website.

There are people in the world who are so unbelievably sheltered, who are told day after day, year after year how good they are....that they are simply blindsided by the fact they they might have a problem.

I was just blindsided.

My posts may have read "excruciatingly rude", But rude was never my intention.

My hope was to start 'part 1' of this thread and get 5-10 replies stating I seemed fine to them. Then, I would go on my merry way. Unfortunately, my plan backfired on me.

In my defense, I never claimed to be perfect. I said my situation was always perfect. I had no drama, no trauma, no anything I could trace this back toward. I couldn't figure out that if there IS something wrong, where it actually WENT wrong.

Thank you for your honesty, thank you for some of your stern words (although some of you reminded me of my high school basketball coach and he was one tough guy). I hope you all find what you are looking for.