Congratulations…you just became the most important person in the world…
Not only that, but little Yuugi has just given you permission to be supremely egotistical and think of nobody but yourself.
Why?
Because I sense you are involved in struggle that could be the most vital one of your life. It may seem hard to believe at this point, but things that you do that concern your health can have an impact on the rest of your life, the next sixty, seventy, eighty years potentially. In order to win this struggle, you are going to have to focus only on yourself, on arming yourself properly and fighting in the best way to get through it.
There are two major distressers that go hand-in-hand, anxiety and depression. They effect most people at some point in their lives, and frequently adolescence is a time when long-term disorders develop. My theory is that anxiety and depression become long-term disorders not because there's something about adolescence that makes it happen, but because this is a time period when a person is less likely to be open with members of their households, professionals or authority figures about what's really going on with them. For most people, anxiety and depression are LEARNED BEHAVIORS, and the faster you unlearn them, the better you'll feel.
You'll find information about some of this below… Eating Disorders | Weight | Depression and Suicide | Guilt | Relationships | Self-Help Books | Medication | Girls | Worry | Anxiety | Self-Mutilation A little about me… Not to bore you, but you might want to know about my background…
I am 43 years old, single, with three children, all boys, ages 20, 18 and 13. I am a freelance writer, editor, and tutor, with a degree in history and a minor in Rural Sociology. Currently I'm in the graduate school at the University of Missouri. My favorite periods in history are medieval European, almost anything English, Rome and the Roman world . I play the piano, and have since I was about five, primarily classical and jazz, and sometimes compose. You can see my artwork around this site and make your own determination about my abilities. I feed stray cats, squirrels and birds. Almost everything fascinates me, especially the realm of human interactions and relationships. I never met a boring person. That's probably good enough for now…
Oh, why do I presume to know what I talk about here?
Well, personal experience is a big factor…
As a side note, my take on current events. |
