Teen Girls: Depression? Really? How About Anger and Powerlessness?

[whathehell]

6. Yes, well they say that depression is anger turned inwards.

I was a tomboy as a kid and when I turned twelve and again at thirteen

I experienced two instances of grand mal seizures that I had to be hospitalized

for, though they never found a phsyical reason for them.

Apart from the fact that kids that age can be an effing nightmare

I wasn't one of the "popular" girls and was harrassed by both boys

and girls, I've always wondered if one of the reasons, unconsciously,

was that I perceived my days of "freedom" were ending, and that

I would soon be devalued and objectified as "prey"....This was

in the early-mid sixties when the Women's movement wasn't even being mentioned.