She said I could post her picture.


I write a lot about my son Tim and his mental illness. 99.9% of my blog posts focus on him because one, he knows about my blog and thinks it’s “cool,” two, he’s fine with me using his name and picture, and three, his condition, childhood onset schizophrenia, is pretty rare. I don’t often write about my two other children, the oldest because, well, other than a raging case of sarcasm and a video game habit bordering on clinical addiction he’s fine, and the youngest because she would prefer I not use her name. But the last several months we’ve been consumed by the mental health issues of The Girl (her pseudonym).

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