Posted by iforgotmypassword on June 16, 2005, at 17:06:13
In reply to ANYONE WITH MENTAL CONFUSIONS!, posted by Sarah28 on June 16, 2005, at 15:50:01
but i'm just starting college at a last chance university at 21 years old. it's pretty sad. i was always told i was gifted and that i would find my way, but really i was just different, and in many more negative ways than positive. i guess what i'm trying to say is that while there are 'mentally ill' folk who are truly exceptionally gifted (my ex was), a lot of us are as this book *should* have classified, just failed concepts. i don't mean to jump on you though, i'm sorry please don't take it that way, but i have had this instinct from ever since i was little to believe that i was gifted. it's all that i was ever told, because *only* because i was a bit 'different'. on that basis alone we cannot be told to have such high hopes for ourselves, as i know i'm not the one who just completely fell apart when everything started to matter. and it's been a terrible crash. some of us are truly destined to be someone, and some of us are destined to be total failures. we truly need to learn to maintain a pragmatic viewpoint for those of us who need to accept ourselves.
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