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Old Mar 25, 2018, 09:11 AM
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Even without Facebook, there is the tendency to present our best to the world, and hide what we think is shameful, disgraceful, or just imperfect. People put up a front. Then we judge what's going on inside us against what the other person's facade is. On the inside, they might be just as wrecked as we are, but they're not showing it.

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Old Mar 27, 2018, 03:57 AM
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Except for me. How come teachers didn't help me? I was a wreck in high school. I've received SSDI the last 15 years.
I’ve always wondered why many people seem to fixate on HIGH SCHOOL?

Those are some screwy years, I know, but surely the years following high school are much more important in determining who you may become?


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Old Mar 27, 2018, 09:29 AM
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I know, but surely the years following high school are much more important
My years following high school were a complete mess. I was in and out of hospitals. In college my mind raced and had depression/anxiety and detachment and couldn't hold a conversation to save my life. I should have gotten help in my teens.
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Old Mar 27, 2018, 06:59 PM
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Sadly the eorld of psychology doesnt have the answers. It serms like they mis-diagnose or don't diagnose what is really going on at all. It is such a complex thing because there are so many hidden things that can end up being the foundation of the problems that so one even ever knows. Symotoms may be obvious, the cause & treatment isn't especially if the mental illness is situational based & not just a chemical thing going on in the brain.
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Old Mar 27, 2018, 07:41 PM
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My years following high school were a complete mess. I was in and out of hospitals. In college my mind raced and had depression/anxiety and detachment and couldn't hold a conversation to save my life. I should have gotten help in my teens.
I am the same. After high school I was a mess. My mental health deteriorated in college horribly. I made no friends. I do hate seeing people after high school with their kids and husbands and careers. I'm 30 and living with my parents on disability. I just want a family and a place of my own.
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Old Mar 28, 2018, 03:07 AM
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My FB page is blank with 1 friend who I know from the hospital. I have been very sick the last 20 years and I don't want to connect with anyone. I wasn't friends with these people in HS, I was very sick in HS and an outcast. I'm not scrutinizing anyone. I'm just taking them at face value.

I must toot my own horn.

I deleted my Facebook account before it was cool to delete your Facebook account.

There was something about how the account would be reactivated if I logged back in within two weeks or something and other crap that I don’t read any longer. Whatever.

Oh, yeah, I experienced the ‘you only have ### friends,’ you know.

I don’t get it?

High school and Facebook are so lonely...
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Old Mar 28, 2018, 06:38 PM
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I know what you mean. I see pictures of people from middle school who were nasty to me because I developed my mental illness and they didn’t understand so they decided to turn the whole school against me.

Anyways, in these pictures they are smiling with their perfect teeth and perfect bodies in luxury European vacations and are in grad school and have money.

But for me, it goes both ways. The kids in high school were horrible to me as well. But now they are in jail, dead, on drugs, multiple kids with multiple partners, never worked a day in their lives and are in general unhappy.

I have job security, decent money, money to travel in the country but still I can afford to travel, and I am in general happy and doing well.

So for me, while I’m not on luxury European vacations, and I don’t have the perfect body, I still feel happy and I feel like I’m living my childhood dreams.
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