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Originally Posted by Rohag
Roughly when did the "happy, well-adjusted child" become someone who "needs to be deprogrammed from negativity?" Was it sudden or gradual? (Feel free to ignore the questions; I ask similar questions of my own history.)
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Gradual, in bits and pieces. I can see some of my issues with nervousness and shyness going back a long, long way - but
obviously awkward, depressive and fatalistic took some time to really kick in. My first bona fide depressive episode was about age 17, and it felt quite different from what I would call "depressed" today, which is now for me more a mix of anxiety, depression and apathy at the same time.