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Old May 21, 2012, 02:27 PM
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not really. believe it or not both my parents are to a good extent antipsychiatry. the reasons why are...well...idk what to think...pperhaps my parents have a bit a personal screw loose? hell idk. im just wondering.

my mother believes in ghosts talking to me and the dead trying to contact me. she wanted to take me to a psychic for help and wanted to help me contact the dead. idk if i ever said this here but she tried to get me an exorcism once. she took me to a catholic church. i had no idea what was happening. but thats for another post. she think psychiatry is full of complete quacks. she was married to someone with schizophrenia that got committed and died in a mental hospital before she met my dad. between my mother and father..my mother...is so..ugh..i think she has some mental issues. shes extremely manipulative.

my father is not so much for psychiatry. hes for like..herbal remedies..and stuff...hes like almost....antigov/militant in a WAY. like...a 60s africanamerican hippie. seriously. hes
Huh. That's a bit weird. I suppose on the upside, if they think that way you will maybe be able to go to them with your qualms about psychatric treatment and they will be a bit understanding -- if they're not totally unstable. I hope you find a way to navigate that.

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but if they deem they cant help me they turn me over to psychiatry. which is...like what it is like by now.
I imagine they're scared. You seem like you're in a lot of pain, hun. Sometimes I think parents, when they see their kids in pain, don't know what to do so they hand their kids over to people purporting to be "experts" - whether that's priests or doctors.

Anyway. How are you today? I was thinking about you during my exam. We had a question about airplanes flying overhead and trespass
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