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Originally Posted by mymorgy
thanks waves
it is nice to feel that i am not alone. yes you have a wonderful social skin. i read your posts and think that this bipolar isn't getting to you. you are so amusing besides so bright that you seem to be functioning on all cylinders.
I know things get to you but they don't seem to run you over. I don't know what is with Kathy. She has a very happy marriage which I think is part of it and they behave not like old married couple. They still tease each other.
She also seems to like to talk about illnesses. I don't know what she does block. I thought she would talk a lot about her granddaughter. She didn't mention her once during the half an hour phone call. She also was sent away early when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She went to a prep school and then spent summers away to to Europe etc.
Love
Bobby
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that "social skin" is a double-edged sword... very useful most of the time because i don't want people to be able to read me. but it's involuntary. so it's a PITA with pdoc. because even though i told him... he is going to look at how i act. the social skin does cease to function at some point... but by the time that happens i'm already in deep doodoo depression-wise.
it's true about grief and depression. at work when i was depressed bad, and you could tell - people would stop me in the hall to ask me what was wrong... i used to just tell people i was tired because i wasn't getting enough sleep. they'd say why and i'd just shrug. they would conclude i was over worked. only one person, ever, in another work situation, didn't buy it. and she actually gave me a heart to heart lecture about depression, and that there are meds, etc etc etc haa. but she and i were already becoming friends by then, so she was perhaps more concerned than most. and she is one who thinks outside of the box.
~ waves ~