Would you say your childhood/school era was

[Deja Q]

Choices 6 and 7 probably warrant an explanation if you're so inclined. If it's that bad there must be a reason. (but optional.)

[RPM]

1. someplace between tolerable and very good

guess it was mostly good.

[JVS]

2. That's what I was thinking too. PHHS forever!

[hippiechick]

3. I was chubby, shy and too smart ...

It was horrible until I turned 15 and lost about 40 lbs & boys suddenly got interested in me, then I figured out that revenge is best served cold.

:evilgrin:


Unfortunately, addictive personalities run in my family so I swapped my childhood/adolescent food addiction for an exercise addiction, threw in a sex addiction for reinforcement of my 'self image', then started drinking to offset the rejection which inevitbably came after the mindless sexual episodes ... I was a real messed up camper until I was about 24. :(

[El Fuego]

4. It seems OK in retrospect

Though I didn't think I liked it at the time because of the usual teenage angst. I'd like to go back in time and tell my school age self that you should enjoy this now because the real-life adult world can be pretty mean.

[progmom]

5. social life vacillated between terrible and wonderful

...but family life was stable and loving and truly wonderful, so I have to go with the first option.

:hi:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. In-between Pretty bad and abysmal

I suffered from intense bi-polar depression from age 8 up until my late teens. I thought I was the only one who felt this way (I didn't know how to ask for help, because I didn't know that depression was an illness) and as such I was detached from others (I couldn't comprehend the behaviour of others and they could not understand me).

School was pretty miserable, a combination of bad teachers and feelings of isolation. My life started to get better when I attended technical college from age 16 and managed to gain confidence, beat the depression and progress myself.

[grace0418]

7. My mom vacillated between clingly, self-absorbed and

downright abusive. And I was smart, chubby, arty and shy. Does not make for a good childhood.

However, I didn't choose hell on earth because I was clothed and fed and I wasn't abused to the extent that some children are.

[Nikia]

8. Similiar situation

Don't feel like going into it this morning. I have been seeing a therapist recently and she said that my anxiety was normal considering (changing from her initial, this is primarily a biological event).
I hope that you are doing well despite this. I did very well emotionally in college after leaving my unhealthy environment. I've had a little bit of trouble in the last few years in the less idealistic "real world" as my childhood insecurities come back to haunt me.

[rockymountaindem]

9. School was ok, but

my parents were and still are the best. I wouldn't trade them for anybody. :hug:

[bobthedrummer]

10. Tolerable.

As tolerable as any alcoholic family background can be.

[mark414]

11. it was alright

but it's only gotten better since i've gotten out