[Vibecrewangel]

I don't know if I an anomally or if I am what could be "normal" (I hate that word....normal)

I went through a lot....more than most people but less than others. In addition to that I have some problems that are probably not related to my upbringing. I'm mildly dyselxic. Wasn't identified until I was almost 21. I have cronic insomnia. Mild to moderate OCD it gets worse when I am stressed. Trichotillomania (sp). Anorexia and bulimia when I was younger....
I never got diagnosed or treated for these, so I never knew anything was wrong. I ended up fighting through things in school but in the end, I found ways to deal with it. I think if I had been diagnosed I might not be doing so well. Tell a kid they have a problem often enough and they will have a problem. Mild cases should never be treated. Most people will work through them. It's only if they are more severe or the person is having serious difficulty because of it should it ever become an issue.

Seriously.....look up a list of psycholigical disorder and you'll find that most people have quite a few. We are so obsessed with naming things we are making a mountain out of a grain of sand.

BTW - I have always had bad luck with therapists. They drug me, they try to get me to dwell on things (this is the part I hated the most.....my depression is based on that fact that I can't let go of things.....making me go over it a billion times DOES NOT HELP) they try to get me to make excuses for things like when I found out about my dyslexia.....
Sometimes I swear they make healthy people insane. Not that some people don't need therapy. Or meds. But I really think that far too many people are taking this route unncessarally.

I did however find one very good therapist. I paid her to do me a favor. To listen, ask a few questions and then give me an honest opinion on if I needed help. We spent a few session we talked about things. I told her how I felt about everything. A lot of which I've posted here.....my opinions on mental health, diagnoses, society, the world. I cut loose. You know what she told me.....she told me she couldn't help me. She told me I would get just as much talking to a friend when I needed it as I would get from her. That especially in my case, having a bout of depression or randomly needing to talk about my family is normal and healthy. She told me that through all my searching I had naturally come to do many of the things that they tell people to do. She also told me that a lot of people are lazy. They want someone else to fix their problems. They want to have excuses for their problems. Therapy is a booming business because people just don't want to deal with it themselves.
She also suggested I write about it....funny...that's being suggested a lot these days.....not to give arm chair therapy, but simply to make is known that regular people, with absolutly no knowledge of medical terms and pshychological babble can get through their own problems if the would just stop whining and looking for a quick fix.

Lord that can be applied to a lot of life these days.....