I am a 45-year-old married woman with two adult children outta the home. Asking the question, "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" kinda relates to my situation. For myself the question is, what came first, the artist or the mental case? lol! I was on my grandpa's knee learning how to draw a clown and puppy dog at 2-years-old, and I played with Bob; my imaginary friend. But I really am crazy, I guess, because it seems like I am the only one that wants a better world and life for my kids and grandkids. I do TikToks to try to get people to understand mental health and I only have seven followers (I have 12 now) and they're all my friends. Well excuse me, one person I do not know. It's sad that only rich crooked manipulating narcissists people run for all government positions. We wanna believe they will do what they say, but we the citizens always get taxed more and lose jobs, homes, kids etc. We need as of the United States of American citizens all start a fund and find the correct person(s) to be elected and let them campaign or something... just a thought!
More on me, I was diagnosed with bipolar and major depression when I was 15-years-old. My guardians really did not know how to handle a child with a mental condition, so they did the only thing they knew. I cannot say I was the best kid, but I know for fact I was not the worst; they just did not know how to deal with a mental condition like mine. As I got older I was diagnosed with anxiety (panic disorder, social anxiety and OCD), PTSD and then I had a severe mental breakdown and was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type and BPD, C-PTSD and seasonal depression. So if you're reading this and you suffer from a mental condition, you now know you are not alone. I am used to people not listening to me because I do not think inside the box and people cannot handle that. I do not understand that because a lot of great people we still reference and use their theories had mental health conditions. If everyone thought the same nothing would get done, that would be like the definition of insanity kind of: people that all thought the same expecting a different outcome. Thank God we all think differently right? right! God put us crazy people on earth to warn the negative people "it's" coming...
When I was a child I learned to make humor of everything in order to survive. That made me want to be an actress or stand up comedian, and I had the confidence to do so. I would practice on my friends and take their constructive criticism very well. I had enough confidence to start joking with the adults and did okay until I did not expect a pitchfork to stab me in the foot for being disrespectful. No one was laughing then and I could not wrap myself around why my guardian just stabbed me in the foot with a pitchfork, when they were joking around and I just added my two sense joke. I know for a fact it was not inappropriate because I would never of asked for an ass whooping, let alone stabbed in the foot. I just think he was jealous he did not think of it first. lol. That moment in time, I lost my will to try to make people laugh. Now I laugh at inappropriate stuff, when I am nervous or scared. I grew out of that in a way and in a way not; I am constantly joking with people and I laugh inappropriately, but have no confidence to be that stand up comedian I wished to be.