Posted by Atticus on September 21, 2004, at 11:24:30
In reply to Is anonymity a problem for anyone else?, posted by Dinah on September 21, 2004, at 8:33:01
Hi Dinah,
I can relate. When I recently went into a relatively brief but intense depressive spiral (med-change life-preserver helped me get my feet back on dry land, or at least, into the shallows), my mom became convinced that the cause was my participation in this site. She thought that interacting with other people who have a mental illness was somehow exacerbating my own. Nothing I said could convince her otherwise. So now I never bring up PB with her, and if she asks, I say I don't go there any more. When I told her I was reading Styron's "Darkness Visible", a memoir about the author's own battle with depression, on the advice of my therapist, her face just fell. She's definitely into an out-of-sight, out-of-mind track of thinking where my illness is concerned. What I believe she really wants to hear is that I'm all better, and it will never happen again. So I can just imagine how ballistic she'd get if I said I was heading off to meet other Babblers. Yow! ;) Atticus
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