From Mad in Norway: What does it do to a young person, when growing up and adolescence is about not being a burden? Our anonymous teenager tells of how guilt and duty characterize life, in a phase that should have been devoted to everything else. The post is a strong description of how the absence of what should have been can make a young life painful. The anonymous story is a reminder of the seriousness when mental health care for parents fails or drags on for years.
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What should have been.
When [we] start listening to ideals.
When [we] start comparing.
When [we] fall into groups that think, and believe, and behave differently.
When the “experts” tell [us] their versions of right and wrong – and yet offer no alternatives, assistance, guidance, beneficial options, choices.
When early school environments lump [us] into one homogeneous being while promoting individuality.
Even for little children, life is multifaceted, multidimensional.
By the time [we] get to high school, and or University, College, [we] have been well and truly trained by the inputs received along the way.
Mental health care for parent/s seems to move along the lines of status and or wealth.
This is a systemic systematic systems’ issue.
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