To all those children of mentally unstable mothers, they must never take on board the guilt that they are responsible in any way for their mothers illness or making her suffer.

Tea for Two? Or Tragedy and Triumph in Adversity.

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My mothers illness manifested itself before I was even aware that it existed. My main memories are of furious fights between my parents, my mother acting erractically and displaying odd behaviours and the inner desire I had to get away from my family and the longing to belong to someone else.

'Running away from your past will only make it run after you and catch you whenever you are...'

'Paranoid... trying to control my every move'

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