Being 12 or 13 years old and telling my mom I thought I had depression. My mom told me I had nothing to be depressed about. 10 years later I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Could that decade have made a difference? I was 17 before I was given any help.
Mom was right from the start though that I wasn’t bi-polar.
Mom’s first comment. I think I was so deep into my own depression over my parents deaths that I was lost in my own world for awhile.