Thread: Greetings from The Grammar Fairy!

Hello there, twinkles!

I came here hoping to find and read experiences and advice about things I would pretty much rather die than talk about in real life. The Internet is good for that.

My particular motivation to join was a wish to contribute my two bits about mental illness. I've never been the type for girl talk, don't wear makeup, am too old to care what the current fashion is, and don't have enough money to join the Y and get all lean and fit. But maybe I'll get more chatty as time goes on. Mental illness is the one thing I have never minded talking about.

I've been a psychiatric patient for more than half my life, and ill for most or all of it. I was diagnosed with severe treatment-resistant depression (might have said "chronic" in there somewhere too) as well as a borderline personality. After years of therapy I feel I've recovered from the BPD; because it's a matter of not fully developing your own personality, you can go back and make up the work that wasn't done.

The depression will never go away, but I'm on medication that means I'm not spending part or all of every day trying not to die, and that's all I ask, as I always said when I was on meds that didn't work. I think I've tried eighteen drugs over the years and if anyone wants to match meds, I'm game. You name it, I've been on it. : )

Kisses to all from
The Grammar Fairy