Wow, SS! What a great post. (((((SS))))) I can totally relate!

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To be a mental patient is to never say what you mean, but to sound like you mean what you say.

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No doubt!

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To be a mental patient is to have everyone controlling you life but you. You're watched by your shrink, your social worker, your friends, your family. And then you're diagnosed as paranoid.

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I really want to know who else is driving me? I didn't give anybody else authorization, LOL!

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To be a mental patient is to act glad when you're sad and calm when you're mad, and to always be "appropriate".

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Yes, I was recently told that I was doing such a good job, that no one else would ever know how much pain I am feeling. Is that a compliment? It was infuriating! Great, I'm so proud of myself that I can feel like @#$#% and just sit and take because there is nothing else I can do.

And on the positive side . . .

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To be a mental patient is not to matter.

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You matter to me, SS. And apparently to other people reading your post!

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Even the air you breathe is therapy.

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OMG, I haven't paid the bill for this therapy. I hope the collectors don't start hounding me, LOL!

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To be a mental patient is not to die, even if you want to -- and not cry, and not hurt, and not be scared, and not be angry, and not be vulnerable, and not to laugh too loud -- because if you do, you only prove that you are a mental patient.

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(((SS))) LOS (Laugh out silently) Shhhhhhhh. --Good point!

Take care of yourself, SS. Being a mental patient means being able to have people enter your life that otherwise wouldn't, like our Ts. I can't imagine that. And don't want to!