I really should stop getting books about mental illness from the library

[terajk]

Book About Mental Illness in the Family that I Forced Myself To Read: "Siblings of people with mental illness respond in one of three ways..."

Zuko: "Nope, I don't think so, WHY AM I SUCH A FAILURE?"

Me: *stops reading book and takes it back to the library*


(I'll put up with an awful book in the name of research. An unhelpful book is another matter altogether).

Comments

[recessional]

. . . I don't even care what the three ways were, trying to say that there are only THREE reactions of siblings to their sibling's mental illness is absurd.

[terajk]

trying to say that there are only THREE reactions of siblings to their sibling's mental illness is absurd.

YES. And the book only acknowledged one or two narrow family structures (parents are always involved, and they're at the "top" of the family/support system--which is an assumption I've run into in a lot of places.

The whole book was pretty terrible (well, the half I read).

[recessional]

I've PERSONALLY had more than three reactions to my siblings' neuratypicality. I've had more than three reactions to MY neuroatypicality!