I have actually started telling my rarely-talked-to friends my story, simply because I don’t have the energy to be upbeat and cheerful with someone who has known me for years.
I truly feel for you and your children’s health woes. I have spent the last two summers managing an anxious, self-harming, depressed teenager who has now come out as transgender. I totally support him, and would love it if that would calm things down. Especially because my youngest stepdaughter’s counselor told my husband yesterday that his daughter was depressed and borderline self-harm from trauma when she was younger. …On top of the 21 year old who doesn’t want to go to college, but ALSO doesn’t want to get a job. Apparently, living at home and sleeping all day is a newly developed profession? How do I apply?
I don’t intend to make this about me. I wanted to share all that so you would know that you are not alone in the WTF universe. And sadly, I feel like my WTF is bleeding over into the fall, so I fervently hope that you don’t end up with the same thing!
P.S. We CAN do this.
