Hey, Daily Stormer?

I just like how she used this event to cosplay as Wonder Woman. “Finally, a time to dress up for JUSTICE!”

Wow. Ain’t that the truth. You have a really healthy perspective. It took me becoming friends with a mom and aging 10 years to begin to see it from my parents’ view, and yeah, don’t blame them for 99% of the bs now because it was never easy or simple raising three children. I do hope that eventually mental health…

Yep. I’m currently the parent of a depressed teen. People are constantly making assumptions/judgments about what our relationship must be like. They (referring specifically to my child) are much more likely to politely smile and go along with something a relative stranger suggests than they are anything I say right…

As a person with a similar ma, I empathize. I can look back now and realize she was seriously screwed up and unable to care for herself, no less two kids. While I am still angry at her, I can also understand what her issues were. I know it wasn’t my fault, regardless of what my emotions tell me still.

Ugh I’m sorry that happened. I heard “buck up” a lot. Parents just didn’t have the capacity to do anything helpful, I didn’t trust them enough to confide, and I didn’t have the understanding or vocabulary to know what was going on with me. At that age you’re even more likely to blame yourself, especially when parents…

Yup. And honestly, if this girls’ parents neglect their own hygiene when things get bad, or simply never instilled good habits, then it’s a lot more complex than “Where were the parents?” Mental health issues don’t usually happen in a vacuum.

Sure, they may be depressed, themselves, or have other mental health issues. It’s likely that they do, or that they evolved insensitive coping skills to deal with lesser versions of what their kid has.

Yeah, my mother would have been the first one to say “cut it all off.” Because that was her solution when she couldn’t deal with my curly hair the way she dealt with her own stick-straight hair. Whenever she thought I didn’t brush it “enough”, she’d take me to Supercuts and get me an old-lady crop.

Thank you, <3

People like you make the world a vastly better place.

If the parents didn’t recognize the signs or thought it was a phase, they probably didn’t think she needed help.

If my teen depression had looked like this, my mother would have absolutely just screamed at me to sort my hair out, in addition to telling me to “get over it.” If she didn’t shave my head for me, with or without my consent. In reality, I pulled my hair out, and had a bald patch going at any given time, and instead of…

You are lovely and wonderful, and made a difference in peoples lives.

I’ve lived with pretty severe bipolar disorder I since I was 14 (diagnosed only at age 28, but the symptoms set in far, far earlier than that). I know the pain of being so depressed you can’t get out of bed for days at a time, so much that even the thought of showering is too exhausting to accomplish. I know how it…

I’d also think - after the hair has become matted - it becomes one of the factors that can fuel and help maintain the depression.

Assuming the hairdresser is addressing this specific girl’s case, apparently the parents told her to “get over it.” Which is really effective in alleviating depression. /s So beyond neglect, I’d say.

My edit isn’t taking, for some reason? I wanted to add that one of the other articles was also about a hairdresser who went that extra mile. What amazing people! <3

This is at least the third article I’ve read in a similar vein — about depressed people neglecting their self-care — in the last month or two. I don’t know what has caused this emergence, but I welcome it. I work from home so I’m not worried about what I look/smell like to other people, so my depression wins most…

At what point is this parental neglect? There’s a line between letting them be them and another between full on closing the door to the problem.