clandestino
29.06.07, 18:13
niestety na polskich stronach nie ma niczego ciekawego o depresji, stron
anglojezycznych jest mnóstwo:
Even as a child, Leslie was afraid of depression. It was the illness that
made her mother so sick that she'd never make breakfast on school days or
help Leslie with her homework. Leslie was too young to know how mental
illness worked, but she certainly understood the pain and devastation it
wreaked on her life.
"There was a point in her depression when my mother stopped paying attention
to me," says Leslie. "She really wasn't my mom for a while." Leslie vowed
never to succumb to it herself.
So when she started to have major periods of sadness in elementary school,
she didn't tell anyone. It was easy to avoid scrutiny. She was a straight-A
student; teachers "just thought I was shy," says Leslie. And since she
normally kept to herself, other kids remained unaware of her growing
melancholy. "I sat alone at lunch, and no one really noticed me," she says.
When Leslie's mother asked her if she was depressed, she fiercely denied
it. "I didn't want my mother to know. She had enough to worry about," says
Leslie.
But without treatment, Leslie's condition worsened, and by the time she was
in the seventh grade, she was suicidal. She tried to kill herself three
different times by attempted drowning, suffocation and overdosing on cough
medicine. Each time, Leslie stopped before she got hurt, but she continued to
keep these incidents