After reading David's post I decided to write about the very first time I was treated for my mental illness. It was 28 years ago on May24, 1983 and i had just recently graduated from college. I went on a camping trip with some friends from work and when driving hom I got confused and wound up at the same place I had just come from. Then the next day I went to work and this is what I remember from that day. I went to sign in and I saw a picture on the wall and began to scream. I did not know what was happening to me. The personal manager drove me home and i was taken to a local hospital. i was then admitted to the mental health unit where I was put on haldol and my parents were told my a nurse i would be fine in a few days. that was not the case. As it turned out i was in the hospital until July 12 and was eventually given ECT treatments. While some people thing such treatments are in humane it was those treatments that did wonder for me. Since 1983 i have been hospitalized 5 different times with the last being in 1997.

I realize i would not be as stable as I am today without the Love and Support of my family. I also give credit to my psychiatrist who I have bben a patient of the entire time. I also give credit to the folks here who I have never met but who I consider people I can turn to who know what I go through at times livng with this illness.