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[pwu2005]

Well, I emailed my mom, almost missing her deadline of December 26...it was sent in at 11:30 or so pm.

Here it is. You might not understand everything it's saying without some context, but I think the main ideas stand out well enough. Don't read it if it's too long for you or if you just don't want to:
There is so much more than meets the eye in my

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[xxbrokenxangel]

Hey. I was kind of skimming through that letter you wrote. You definitly seem intelligent and articulate. I too have suffered with depression for more than half my life. I was diagnosed with severe clinical depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, severe anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder just before my 9th birthday. I still don't think people take it as seriously as it needs to be taken. There's still this huge stigma that goes with it. It's an illness. I was in therapy from 8 and a half until I was 20. I've just now realized that I need to go back in again. I have friends who have problems who go for one session and suddenly think they dont have to go anymore, but it is a continuing process. I procrastinate too. Alot. I sleep as well. Way more than I should. The medication is now pretty much a habit but a few years ago I just wouldn't take it because all it did is remind me that I'm different from most people. It's good that you and your mom were able to atleast communicate, its not that way for everyone. Just

[pwu2005]

Hey, thanks for the encouraging words.

And wow, that's a lot of diagnoses that you've gotten. I was also diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome not long after my depression diagnosis, but I think that much or most of it's disappeared since my childhood. I just got both of these diagnoses last year, though. For the longest time, I thought (without a diagnosis) that I might have ADD, and I still don't know if I do or not. One psychiatrist did an "ADD test" on me, which was of questionable reliability. He told me to subtract 7 from 100 till I got to 0. Since I could do that without any mistakes, he ruled that I didn't have ADD. I...dunno about that one. Lol.

And I do agree wholeheartedly about what you've said about mental illness and the stigma that goes with it. It's just not taken very seriously, and the educational systems of our country don't really treat it like a physical illness. People always consider mental illness a lame excuse, when there's really some physical stuff going on with the brain that just can't be seen on the

[anhui]

u express urself well in words. :)

[pwu2005]

Thanks. :)