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About the depression, I have been diagnosed with that and acute insomnia (I live in Britain so we have NHS, but getting anything from them is like getting blood from a stone), but I've sworn to myself that I'd never begin pill popping, my sister has and it's turned her into a zombie. I'd rather have my wits about me and not be a complete push over, I'm used to standing up for what I believe in and I'm as stubborn as a mule but I hate being put into this category of "Damaged" But I've gotten no help from my school, they seem content in sitting back and letting me go completely insane. I swear, by the time I leave my High School, I'm going to be so... I can't even describe it...fucked I guess.

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
05-10-2011 09:46 AM
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