Posted by Nadezda on October 18, 2008, at 10:27:13
In reply to Re: Mental Illness in Your...., posted by Suedehead on October 18, 2008, at 9:24:08
Hmm. No one that I know of in my family had any particular mental illness.
Maybe they weren't the most sociable, friendly, open-hearted people one could imagine. But they seem to have functioned with fairly unremarkable effectiveness.
I wish there was a history of something. Maybe somebody was a bit depressed-- my mother vaguely says-- but it wasn't enough to become family lore handed down-- or to have caused that much of a stir, or to have landed anyone in a hospital, a psychiatrist's office, or a jail.
Well I did have an uncle who was a lawyer who embezzled money from his clients. But no one said he was mentally ill. Just unethical, and undisciplined, and given to indulging his impulses, without regard for the law, or perhaps decency. Anyway, our family fortune, such as it was, was dispersed in paying back his clients.
I seem to come from long line of undistinguished, lumpen proletariat, slightly unsuccessful, itinerant peddlers, plumbing suppliers, and dry goods salespeople. My grandfather invented a bunch of plumbing contrivances. He never seems to have invented anything that caught on, though.
Nadezda
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