I is can be famous now?

[seiberwing]

So an anchor from WATE came over to interview me and my mom this morning for a feature, and it was kinda cool. Mom answered a bunch of questions on what it was like having two kids with mental disorders (not that my brother and his issues aren't enough for three kids) and talked up the handbook she wrote for parents of children in the same situations. And damn if she doesn't deserve attention and praise for that, considering all the work she's done on it for the past two years and the grant managing and the staying up until four in the morning some nights trying to get it done in time.

Me, it was mostly "what was it like, when did you first know (Hint: When I scored high in a Reader's Digest quiz on depression), what's medication like, do you have any advice for other teens who have been newly diagnosed". Mom says I didn't do too bad.

It'll be airing on the first of next month, if anyone's curious. Not sure about the time yet.

Comments

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Thankfully there is much less stigma now than when I was your age. Of course, I wasn't diagnosed till I was 28 -- because "teenagers didn't get depressed." I can look back through paper journals and I *know* I'd been depressed for 10-15 years by that time. And of course, when that's been "normal" for so long -- there can't be anything wrong, right? This is the way it's always been.

*sigh*

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Hell, I don't even know what 'normal' is supposed to be, anyway.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

"Normal" is just a setting on your Dryer .....

:-D

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

So I've heard.