[Vibecrewangel]

Sever cases....like my mother and middle sister....seriously need meds and heavy therapy. I have always thought my mother need hospitilaztion and my middle sister has the exact same problems. My youngest sister and I have some ourselves (depression and OCD are our biggest) but certainly do not require the same level of help as mom and other sis.
What I am talking about is normal behaviors in normal children. Kids have imaginary friends. Little girls have stuffed animal tea parties and boys wage battles between dinosaurs and the russian army. We built forts out of sofa cusions and pretended they were our houses. We used to have art time in grade school. We had a creative outlet. Many schools don't offer that any more and when kids are caught drawing or doodling they are thought of as flighty or that they have ADD. We used to sleep with night lights on and I remember the feeling of strength that first night I made it without one. I was never able to sit through a whole movie. Even an hour long tv show was a task. I wanted to get up and play. We were princesses and cowboys. Astronauts and animals. I remember trying on different personalities trying to figure out not only what I wanted to be when I grew up, but who I wanted to be. IMHO stifiling these thoughts, these feelings is a big part of why so many teenagers are horribly depressed. So violently co-dependent. So alone within themselves. Why they aspire only to be just like everyone else. Not in appearance but in attitude. I see so many young people today who know what they want to be but have no clue who they are. Kids need to find themselves and I believe in the deepest core of my being that as a society we are severly stunting the growth of our youth.