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Brave, sad girl
By bipolarlawyer | May 5, 2008
A story from my local paper about a teenaged girl suffering from bipolar and the push in Massachusetts for better funding for youth mental illness treatment.
Topics: bipolar, bipolarlawyer, depression, meds, self harm |
May 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
That makes my heart ache. Last week my high school lost yet another student to suicide. I spent much of my high school years watching one of my closest friends struggle not only with mental illness but also with the crushing side effects of a medication that should have never been prescribed to a child. It so often seems to me that young peoples’ mental health is completely trivialized.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Intense and powerful story that is all too often true. I hope this law passes.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Last week my town and two boys lost a mother to suicide. In February I was hospitalized after walking a ragged edge for years. Sometimes everything looks stable or “up” and then the horrible down appears to come out of nowwhere. I too hope this law passes.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am
How sad this story is.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Girls like her are the reason I am NEVER quiet about my illness.
That poor family, that poor girl. So many things that could be done better…