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Originally Posted by little turtle
depression is awful no matter what causes it....awful
I hope more help is on the way...I hope
the world is very stressful now and things are changing so fast..
I tend to blame myself...and shame myself..i have taken on what I saw when I was a child and some of my relatives were made fun of for being mentally ill..
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My family would not talk about the mental illness. I'd ask grandparents, aunts/uncles, etc., "Is there any history of depression in the family?" The answer was always "no." Yet, I now know there was and nobody would talk about it. It was on both the maternal and paternal sides.
My father took his own life when I was 12 y.o. We weren't allowed to discuss it then and nobody mentions him now -- erased from history, but still in my broken heart.
WC