Sounds hard, I empathize with you....that your illness started pretty early....It's hard for me imagine finding things to be depressed about at that age, but it is an awkward age.....very awkward.....

I do know danielle steel's son wasn't given meds for a long time to prevent the developmental dangers...yet when they finally did....it was SUCH a blessing.....it was his only hope......there, answered.....

The book is good .and Danielle Steel and I correspond, when I wrote her about how touched I was by the book.....

http://www.amazon.com/His-Bright-Lig...863&sr=8-1