 Sometimes parents just don't understand...
remember that song??? Anyway, I'm just feeling a bit down in the dumps about life in general. I have had clinical depression my whole life but my parents are entirely unaccepting of my using prescription medications to treat it. To them it's "a generational thing", "a matter of perspective", "because I am interested (and have a degree in) psychology." Basically to them it is not a real, physical disease. Despite me telling them that I can feel physical changes in my mood, that I hurt myself, that I have felt this way my entire life, etc, it falls on deaf ears. If I had any other health problem, they wouldn't second-guess it at all. I know I probably can't change their minds (I've been trying for 6 years now) but I just needed to vent a little bit. Not having the people you love understand or believe you really stings.
Can you sympathize?
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