Posted by onceupon on October 17, 2008, at 22:23:18
In reply to Mental Illness in Your...., posted by JayMac on October 17, 2008, at 19:08:08
This is a tough one for me. Not in the sense of disclosing mental illness in my family. Yes, there is. I *think* my mother and sister both struggle with depression. And my sister has also had an eating disorder. And I suspect my grandmother was depressed too. But I know this only by inference because *no one* has ever talked about it. Of course, I'm included in the conspiracy of silence. I'm not yet ready to broach that with my family of origin, but I hope against hope that I can talk about it with my son.
The other reason this is tough for me is that I swore up and down in my early 20's that I would never have children, because I would never want to pass on what I was experiencing (unrelenting depression) to anyone. And now I have a son. It's too early to tell whether he will be influenced by depression in the same way as I have. But I worry.
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