Sorry, crossed the streams.

I'm a little touchy with the whole "kids can't have mental health illnesses" since that's one of the things that screwed me up for so long. Granted the DSMV didn't haev pediatric bipolar disorder until I was out of high school, but I started having severe problems when I was around 9 or so. Things got really bad from age 11-15 before I was finally diagnosed with "atypical depression" and at that point I was so severely depressed, I really should have ended up in hospital.

But for most of the time what I heard was "if I really wanted to"I would be like other kids my age. And the absolute knife the heart, worst thing I ever heard "If I really loved my mother I wouldn't act the way I did."

Luckily Mom didn't buy into that.

I think "cheer up, little buckeroo!"

I knew it! Cheer up, you slacker of sad!

I am interested in your product, and will fund you on Kickstarter.

First, off I'm doing away with pills and coming up with a stylish yet intriguing series of delivery systems. We might start with those little cigarette-holder-opium-bowl-thingies you see in Watchmen. Or possibly we shall go to tinctures administered through something that looks exactly like an Art Nouveau Absinthe dispenser. Of course, the raw sugar cubes will also be laced with drugs and everybody's mental health will occur in medically sanctioned, silk pillowed dens of sane iniquity. For which I have coined the phrase "saniquity."

Saniquity Dens will be located in residential neighborhoods, replacing Starbucks, and also in office parks, looking suspiciously like Jaye's I Dream of Jeannie styled trailer.

askye, I agree with you 100%. And your mom is awesome.

We wouldn't need all these fancy-schmancy diagnoses if they just brought back laudanum.

We wouldn't need all these fancy-schmancy diagnoses if they just brought back laudanum.

Right? You know what my favorite opiate of the masses is? Opium!

We wouldn't need all these fancy-schmancy diagnoses if they just brought back laudanum.

Trufax, my brother and I had a conversation today about what junkies we would be if only we could get ahold of morphine on a regular basis. (Hey, at least we recognize our addictive tendencies and steer clear of the dealers, you know?)

You can have all my morphine if I can have your codeine.

t waves her codeine in the air. waves it like she just don't care.

It's the good stuff, too. What they gave me when I had the pertussis.

I shouldn't have to point it out, but I'm not saying a kid can't have issues. I'm just remembering myself as a kid and all my kid friends, and how many diagnoses would have been given to us when we thought we were just kids.