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The Super Girl Syndrome Print E-mail
Written by JB   
Hello,
After wishing for so long that I could find people who could actually relate, I found this forum.

My mom became ill for the first time 25 years ago, when I was 10, and she 39. It's quite an unusual age for the onset of bi-polar illness (with psychosis) but nothing about her case seems to fit "the norm".
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Shelley's Ten Commandments Print E-mail
Written by Shelley   
I am 41 years old, the child, the niece, the cousin, the grandchild, and the grand-niece of mentally ill loved ones. As my dad had prophetically told me when I was nine, I was going to learn many things "the hard way". So many of you who are writing in this forum are in your twenties, unable to trust that you will have a fulfilling life yourselves. I was there once, in the process of becoming seriously depressed myself, without knowing why, but I figured out what I needed.
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No real solution Print E-mail
Written by Michelle   
Dear Paul.

I've visited your website a number of times to read other internet user's emails & articles. I read the email from Janice, from the UK tonight which is almost a mirror image of my own experience, except that my mother is still alive - just physically as well as mentally very ill. It's amazing as I read all of the accounts from different people with so many common experiences, feelings, and behaviours, both by the adult children, and the sick parents.
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I always thought of myself as different Print E-mail
Written by Ally   
I have always thought of myself as "different". For many years I have blamed it on myself without putting the blame where it belonged; on my parents. It's hard to do, when as a child what you grow up are told what you are living with is "normal", when in reality it is only "usual" behaviour. Especially when in the extended family, aunts, uncles, cousins they all seem the same.
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We never had birthday parties - a distinct lack of fun Print E-mail
Written by Fleur   
"A few years ago it suddenly occurred to me why our family life when I was growing up was so different from other families. There was a distinct lack of fun in our family. We did very little together, my sister and I never had birthday parties, we never had birthday cakes, we never did sleep overs, we never had friends over to play, we didn't go to the movies, the local pool, we never had a parent read a book to us.
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