Life before mental health

So I was thinking about my short life before I started developing behavioral problems and stopped trying to make friends or even live my life...

And I thought to myself that I missed out of so many memories because I was just trying to survive until the next day as a kid but now that i'm a mom; my boys are going to look at me asking how my childhood was? And my response will be ****ed up.

Can you recall a time before medications, doctors and therapist where you could just make a friend that did give you the face that you're a freak?

Yes, I can remember. My problems didn't start until I was 32, so I have a lot of memories before that time.

I'm sorry you don't have a lot of memories. Mental health issues cost us so much.

Maybe you have heard the story of the boy asking, "Daddy, where did I come from?" The child's father went into a long birds-and-bees kind of thing before eventually taking the time to ask why the child was asking...and then the child ultimately said a new boy at school was from Cincinnati and had asked him where he was from.

Try keeping in mind that your boys will be asking about your childhood while looking forward to their own lives rather than looking back at yours. We all have our own baggage, but our children are not intended to be its carriers.

My two daughters learned of my childhood adventures and such from their grandmother and myself, then many years later I talked with them a bit about the overall dysfunction in our family history. My grandchildren occasionally ask what it was like for me while I was growing up, and I typically find answers by looking at things and/or possibilities in their own lives and finding similarities in mine.

It's ok, it is what it is and I can't change it. I've been depressed since I was 2 and bipolar since I was 4. My other things start in high school. I just wish I wasn't like this anymore.

Only kind of. My "issues" didn't start setting in until around age 9 or 10, and I really don't have much memory before that. My autobiographical memory in general is terrible.

Being depressed or having a bipolar. These language needs translation into something that could describe a person as the person and the world, and maybe we can look at things in this continuation of one's timeline, in order to learn bunch more about this one and the only life we've got here. That being said, the title asks the life before mental health, how far does anyone think it goes back?

A person is born sick and becomes a parent.

I'm no parent but falsifying bunch of facts and telling kids as if a parent understands the world just the same as those kids do is what they call 'good/healthy' parenting. The world keeps changing, fools keep selling the images of success and what not regardless of the underlying truth that would benefit all the mankind. I do like and dislike parenting that I see in other's lives, kids are born intelligent and parents are there to mess it up, with those confusing languages telling things that even they themselves don't truly believe in. Most ideal parents love their kids more than they love themselves, kids can be the weaknesses/weakning forces. Kidnapping of the young minds, the incarceration of kids minds may be happening as we speak, we as members of this society, each have responsibility to repay the debt owed to this singular point in time, freedom doesn't come with a price tag.

Merry Christmahanakwanzika.

P.S. Human beings are too irrational as a potential friend candidate.

when I was younger (around 5 or 6), but since my mental health journey started at such a young age, everything was so short (almost too short)

I can't really say even my childhood was a good life- surrounded by abuse and hatred

but yes, I remember my short life before hospital visits etc

and honestly?. I sometimes want to forget it

I received my first diagnosis (ADHD) at age 5 and briefly took Ritalin. I started having panic attacks at 12...started therapy around then...started taking meds and seeing a pdoc at 14. So I honestly can't say there has been a time when MI hasn't run my life.