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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom had a mental breakdown when I was about 12. I know how bad it was because she went out to the Mayo clinic for treatment, and did ECT three times a week for a year. I never had people over because I was ashamed. During the ECT, my mom forgot my name constantly and got me mixed up with my much thinner sister, and constantly told me (thinking I was my sister) that I had gotten fat and ugly. My mom is fine now, and doesn't seem to realize that the years we spent with her when she wasn't fine aren't going to just go away, and that we will always remember them and that they greatly impacted us.[/quote] This is one of the things that pisses me off: my mom's mental illness made our childhood hellacious. Yet, we only ever hear that she's a victim. There has never been any acknowledgment that she said and did things that scarred us for life.[/quote]
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