Brandi Yates

I stayed stressed out.  I was shy and from kindergarten throughout I spent most of my time worrying.  I think I may have had some kind of social anxiety as early as kindergarten.  That is 12 years of stress and Im just now realizing how much stress I was under.  Anyone else?

Brandi Yates

I should also say that by the time I was 16 I was into drugs.� By 21 I was hospitalized for depression/ocd and put on disability for it.� Im still sorting it all out... :(� Im 35 now and I have four kids.� The oldest is 12 and he began staying at home in 3rd grade.� My three girls have always been home.� I started a home business 6 years ago and we have all been able to stay home.�

School may have not been The cause of my depression but it did not help.

<Sandra@...>

-=-I stayed stressed out.  I was shy and from kindergarten throughout I spent most of my time worrying.  I think I may have had some kind of social anxiety as early as kindergarten.  That is 12 years of stress and Im just now realizing how much stress I was under.  Anyone else?-=-


Whether everyone else or nobody else was stressed doesn't matter.


To be a less stressed parent is crucial to successful unschooling.  http://sandradodd.com/deschooling

Deschooling is largely about looking at the world without school-colored glasses.  Part of that (not all of it) should be examining some of your school memories and experiences, and putting them to rest, so you're not thinking of them all the time.


Finding ways to be more positive will make a huge difference in your life and in your family's life.  

http://sandradodd.com/being

http://sandradodd.com/breathing


and avoid negativity, actively:  http://sandradodd.com/negativity


Sandra 



--- In [email protected], <brandi.yates@...> wrote:

I should also say that by the time I was 16 I was into drugs.� By 21 I was hospitalized for depression/ocd and put on disability for it.� Im still sorting it all out... :(� Im 35 now and I have four kids.� The oldest is 12 and he began staying at home in 3rd grade.� My three girls have always been home.� I started a home business 6 years ago and we have all been able to stay home.�

School may have not been The cause of my depression but it did not help.

Sandra Dodd

-=-I should also say that by the time I was 16 I was into drugs.-=-

Your parents weren't involved in any unschooling, though, right?  We're talking about unschooling and what advantages there can be.

<plaidpanties666@...>

There's evidence that introverts are more prone to depression (lots, going all the way back to Jung). Introverts also can find school challenging in a number of ways - between the over-abundance of people and the need to change activities at far shorter intervals than is comfortable. And introverts can have a harder time socializing in schools because they don't have the ability to observe social situations comfortably from a difference. So while being an introvert may have made you more likely to become depressed, you were also in an environment which would have exacerbated that tendency enormously. 


---Meredith



--- In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote:

I should also say that by the time I was 16 I was into drugs.� By 21 I was hospitalized for depression/ocd and put on disability for it.� Im still sorting it all out... :(� Im 35 now and I have four kids.� The oldest is 12 and he began staying at home in 3rd grade.� My three girls have always been home.� I started a home business 6 years ago and we have all been able to stay home.�

School may have not been The cause of my depression but it did not help.