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Old Feb 21, 2015, 08:38 PM
Skywalking Skywalking is offline
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Originally Posted by BlackSheep79 View Post
It's like you wrote a story of my childhood. In fourth grade I was sick physically, I was constantly missing school. The doctors were running tests and nothing showed up. Looking back I was subconsciously making myself sick. My pediatrician looked at my mother and told her that she needed to take me to a psychologist. She completely ignored it, didn't believe it. Even back then there was signs I was not well, also I also suffer from OCD and anxiety. My parents were never there for me, they worked all the time, I raised my sister while dealing with all of this by myself. Things went really crazy at 15, suicidal thoughts and cutting, and they finally brought me to a pdoc and psychologist, but they still were not there for me. I don't even know if they believe in my diagnosis because I don't have much contact with them for much of this and other stuff. My mom is also sick in the head, depression and major hoarder, but she refuses to believe she has a problem. What's so funny, well not really, is my sister has depression, thank God not BP, and when she was a teenager she told my mom she wanted to see a therapist, and my mom said no that all teenagers go thru this. So yeah I also had a professional tell my mom I wasn't right and she didn't do anything about it.
I get this so hard. I'm sorry you and your sister went through that.

My family was also in a hoarding situation. It's been a trial for me to realize that even though I know they love me, deeply and truly, and did their best, that doesn't mean neglectful behavior was not neglectful.

I have a physical health problem that could have been corrected in childhood, that was not because my parents just...weren't there, mentally...and if I want it fixed, I'll probably have to have major surgery with a long recovery time. I only found out about it a few months after the bipolar diagnosis, so remembering this about the school counselor on top of knowing that is a bit of a saddening thing.