Posted by cubic_me on February 23, 2004, at 7:42:50
In reply to What do you tell your parents?, posted by fallsfall on February 22, 2004, at 13:20:09
I don't know if I can really add anything to this, and in a way I agree with what DaisyM said about not trying to get emotional support from someone who is unlikely to give it.
My parents know nothing about my SI or depression. A few years back a teacher rang my mum and told her she thought I may be depressed - my mum lauged, said I couldn't possibly be depressed and told all her friends how hillarious it was (I was deeply suicidal at the time). Often people think that my parents should know something of my emotional life, but I'm old enough to stand on my own feet now, and they do not deserve to know. I get on well with them on a superficial level, and I do not blame them for how they brought me up, but I think that anyone must earn the right to know about me in that way, and they haven't earned it.
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