If my daughter were shot and I knew she had a history of mental illness... no I don't think I would assume it had anything to do with the number of people able to get health insurance...

My step brother diagnosed his own Rhabdomyolysis using Google. At the hospital everyone from the front desk clerk to the nurses to the doctor scoffed at him and told him in no uncertain terms did he have Rhabdomyolysis. What did he end up having? Rhabdomyolysis. Stop assuming we're all morons. Plenty of patients have the mental capacity to discern reputable online data from the rubbish and we have the added advantage of knowing our own bodies better than you do.

What's nice about being an introverted adult is I no longer have my parents nagging me to be social. That was so annoying and I got treated like I was mentally ill. When I was 17 he asked me why I couldn't be more like *insert popular girl I was friends with many years ago*. I told her she's pregnant (true) and said I can run out right now, find a boy and be like her if you want. Shut her up.

Sorry. My long winded posts are a habit. Back in truu, ppl were very judgemental if they didn't have all the info. I'll try not to be tii talkative anymore!! :-)

Signing up for online therapy, since face-to-face isn't an option right now. Took the quiz to figure out what aspect to focus on first, and apparently I'm just broken. I have every mental disorder mentioned. Great. H think I'm crazy, and apparently for good reason.

My daughter is 2 and a half, she is my second child and before having kids I worked in early childhood education for nearly a decade. Needless to say I have a very good understanding of developmental mental milestones and the like. Long story short, I am certain she has a language disorder, things just aren't quite right with her. We've had her hearing tested (and she is having another follow up hearing test next month), I know her hearing is fine, but she doesn't seem to understand me at all unless I give her very specific non verbal cues while I talk to her. Unfortunately I'm having a hard time getting her doctor and child health nurse to take me seriously. I know the sooner we get her assessed and get her some help the better off she will be but they don't even want to put her on the waiting list till she's three, and then she'll have to wait on the waiting list at least 6 months before even seeing anyone, and then another few months to wait on results and work out a plan. I don't want to wait close to a year to get her the help I know she needs now!! It's so frustrating. I'm just going to have keep at them, call around, and see if I can get the ball rolling sooner.

Financially I made a mistake not asking for alimony, half of the house, or half of my ex's 401k. We'd been together for 13 years, and he was abusive. But mentally, psychologically, I still stand by my decision, because that means he really will be 100% out of my life. I don't have to depend on his money or nag him about paying me; and don't even get me started on what a nightmare it would have been to sell the house. He could take passive-aggressive to a whole new level. I wanted out. I got out. And I'm doing the best I can for myself now.

Last one week at the daycare. It was not my intention, but I had to get out of there ASAP. Boss was a dramatic diva that hardly ever worked, but was an expert mico-manager. The job was more exhausting mentally and emotionally because all the sh*t she would say behind our backs constantly asking my coworkers how we felt about one another, coming in when parents were picking up kids to ask how our day went, etc. She put her needs first and foremost and kept on inquiring why I wasn't more available. Now I'm having to fight her for my overdue paycheck. Ughh...

This is gonna be long. My parents are classic gas lighting narcissists. I still love them, and can't stand for them to be unhappy with me, but they made growing up pure hell. I'm 23 yrs old, and my mentality is still stuck in the horrors of 7th grade. My h hates my parents. I try o make everyone happy, but I'm failing miserably. I just had somewhat of a nervous breakdown and my h is now asking for a break. He put me through hell when we got married, but he's a MUCH better man now.unfortunately, hes tired of trying to help fix me. So I am alone. I don't know what I want out of life. I don't know what my purpose is if it isn't to make dh and Ds happy. I am broken. I don't know how to fix it. I have spent my whole life fixing, and now I'm broken and I can't pick up the pieces. I have nobody to help me now. The only reason I'm still here is for Ds, and I'm terrified I'll break him too.

I wish Alien Wife would show up here. I miss her posts and wonder what happened to her and her husband. He had some mental problems and she was trying to cope. Seems like that happens to a lot of wives though the mental illness expresses in so many different ways.