Mental Health Support

presented as the ideal, the norm, is BS designed to keep us in thrall, and to keep shrinks and big pharma in their big bucks. This family of the blood, this genetic or legal relation is no guarantee that one will find love and support and encouragement. Often, it is abuse and pain. And one has EVERY right to run as far as possible.

Then there is family of the heart, who may, or may not, be genetically or legally related. This family is there for you, supports you, encourages you, loves and cares about you. Some of us have both. For many of us, we are fortunate to have family of the heart.

There is a damned good reason for this old saying, "Your friends are god's way of apologizing for your relatives." (we will leave the discussion of why god inflicted those relatives in the first place for another time.). Or the one that says you can choose your friends, but not your family. However, one can choose, for one's life and well-being, to stay as far away from one's dysfunctional, abusive, hateful (and politically insane) family of the blood as possible, with no need to feel guilt or angst.