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From: Melissa
Category: Category 1
Date: 4/20/02
Time: 9:48:09 PM
Remote Name: 68.39.102.44
My mother overdosed when I was 18 and her depression (in my opinion) had a lot to do with it. But when I think about it, my entire life was affected by depression. I feel like I really never got to know my mom the way my brother did because he got to know her before her illness had progressed. There's a big age difference between us and by the time I was 4 she had already had a serious nervous breakdown. The shock treatments she received in treatment caused memory loss so she didn't remember me at all. My family sent me to stay with my aunt until she was better. She had shock treatments again when I was in eigth grade and I remember her repeatedly telling me how tall I had gotten because her memory loss that time had left her believing I was still a small child. To make this long story short, depression put a lot of distance between my mom and me that even now hurts me a little bit.