[ SECRET POST #1067 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1067 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

waaaaay too much personal information

[childings.livejournal.com]

I'm 26, so I was in elementary school in the late 80s/early 90s. Yeah, they didn't diagnose bipolar in children then (although finally psychiatry has realized that children can indeed be bipolar, and from what I remember about my behavior and what I've read in my psychiatric file from my public school days, I was definitely bipolar even then). When I was nine or ten the school finally convinced my mom and dad, which took a lot of coercion on their part, that I should see a psychiatrist and he diagnosed me with ADHD, though I was only on meds for two weeks and they didn't follow through with any kind of therapy (granted they couldn't afford it). And that was it. I was pretty much told to "suck it up" and treated like I was throwing fits on purpose all along. It was horrible for my self-esteem and honestly I spent most of my childhood being physically isolated from other students (this was also because I was academically advanced for the curriculum). Most of what I remember about elementary school is being alone in the library reading or taking IQ tests. Oh, and throwing temper tantrums.

I do remember the principal of my elementary school (who was a fucking bitch who once locked me in a storage closet because she didn't want to deal with me) telling my parents that they needed to get me a CAT scan and they were super offended, though now I kinda wish they would have, especially after I had a seizure in college (my doctor referred me to a neurologist but I never went because I couldn't afford it back then).


TL;DR It wasn't so much that I didn't get treated, it's the fact that my parents refused to believe that there was anything wrong with me and chalked it all up to my lack of self-control.