Posted by Dinah on October 4, 2006, at 10:08:15
In reply to at what age did many people start to feel ill?.., posted by sleepygirl on October 3, 2006, at 21:44:01
My world crashed in sixth grade, and I crashed with it. I spent the year of 1974 in therapy on heavy medication. I pretended to get better, and people bought it. I was blissfully happy in tenth and twelth grades. And I functioned reasonably well from tenth grade to my early thirties after my marriage.
The stresses of being an adult in the real world got to me. And my husband's perfectionism probably fed my always present OCD, and I started having panic attacks and sought therapy. I almost graduated a few times in that first year, then crashed in postpartum depression. I think I've never been quite right after that. It was my third bout of major depression. I took AD's for the first time after my son quit breast feeding, and I'm sure they messed up my brain, although I could be wrong.
That being said, I was always a somewhat anxious and sensitive (and quirky) child with moderate interpersonal difficulties. And after sixth grade I was left with a lot of OCD stuff and really was not ok. I just functioned ok.
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