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by Sumojo
Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #2186156
The simplicity of my day to day.
#964316 added August 17, 2019 at 6:24am
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Prompt three
Prompt three

Do I think mental health is a choice?
All I know from first hand experience is that no one would ever choose to be mentally ill. My mother had depression and growing up with a sad mother is hard for children, they are often made to feel at fault. I was happy to get married and leave home, it was a relief.
When my youngest daughter was born, she cried constantly, when my mother visited us from England she said that the baby was like her and she proved to be right. The child was a nervous, frightened child and has carried on to be an adult who finds life too hard. She in turn had a daughter who has been diagnosed with a personality disorder and has been a nightmare to deal with for all of her twenty years. So no I don’t think mental health is a choice. To be able to understand a little more I studied counselling, purely for my own benefit. This training has come in very useful with my family. The answer to the question of nature versus nurture is clear to me. My daughter is a twin, her brother has an entirely different personality, yet they were raised in exactly the same way. He is a blessing to his sister, speaks to her everyday, although they live thousands of miles apart.


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