Mental Health Support

when you see young kids showing signs, you have to wonder.
my daughter is bipolar, and she had signs very early on. she was dx'd at 14.
i am def not the world's best mom. i struggled quite a bit w my own depression. but i also am not the worst. i yelled a lot, but only a few times got mad enough to actually hit any of my kids.
my ex is also not the best dad. or the worst. he was pretty absent, career focused, and had a couple issues of his own. and he sucked as a step dad, which affected a lot of things.

i think the big link between trauma and illness is more one of resilience than direct cause and effect. for some, the ups and downs of life are just water over the dam. for others, those ups and downs are concrete shoes.
it is a bit of a gordian knot. but it is a true fact that the right meds can tease out that knot, and help people live a good life.

my ad's have kept me on a pretty even keel over the last 5 years, in spite of a very difficult patch of life.
the difference in how much bs bugs me is pretty obvious. sometimes i forget what the depths were really like. they dont make a lot of sense to me now.
i do remember them well enough to be happy to take those pills for the rest of my days.