I Am Learning To Love Myself: Mara’s Story, Part Two

“Almost all the girls in my family or in my best friend’s family have struggled with anorexia or bulimia at some point in time.”
Read more“Almost all the girls in my family or in my best friend’s family have struggled with anorexia or bulimia at some point in time.”
Read more“Homeschooling and mental illness are a terrible combination. And chances are, if a parent is mentally ill, the child might as well be too — and this cycle can go on for generations. My way of ending it is to not have children. I don’t want them anyway and I would be a terrible parent. But I don’t want to spread my genes and the proclivities that go along with them.”
Read more“My mom has been bi-polar for as long as I can remember, but she was diagnosed when I was 10. I remember when she started taking medication for it and things got bad. Real bad. This was back before many long-term studies had been done on the medications she was given, and she was given just about every one under the sun between then and now.”
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