Runs In the Family [justpropmts jan. 1-15]
They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it.
Her dad says he's cured of the depression he went through when he was younger, like it was the flu or a nasty lingering cold. He doesn't have problems, he's so pro-active nothing can touch him. He doesn't get sick and when he does it goes away in a day or two anyway, when he decided he was fat he lost the weight in half the time it'd take a normal person. He decided she needed to lose weight too, twenty pounds at least, but she never lost more than five or six before it just started to make her crazy.
Her mom claims she's not depressed and won't take meds in case they make her too numb. She gets upset sometimes and argues and criticizes and mopes and cries. She's not so bad most of the time but she has her bad days. She's a perfectionist, she gets upset when things go wrong.
So it's not such a terrible wonder when sometimes little miss Rebekah has her moody spells, is it? When she cries a lot and beats up on herself, glares at her reflection, steps on the scale over and over, hides her pain with a big old Cheshire cat grin. And it's not such a terrible surprise when her doctor brings up the possibility of depression, even though she ignores it 'cause hell she's like fifteen she doesn't have anything to be depressed about does she really?
She's kind of afraid to suggest the possibility to her parents. She doesn't want to seem like a drama queen or something, more than she already is.
But it's not too long before she's joined the Prozac nation.
Bekki St. James (age 15)
original character.
Her dad says he's cured of the depression he went through when he was younger, like it was the flu or a nasty lingering cold. He doesn't have problems, he's so pro-active nothing can touch him. He doesn't get sick and when he does it goes away in a day or two anyway, when he decided he was fat he lost the weight in half the time it'd take a normal person. He decided she needed to lose weight too, twenty pounds at least, but she never lost more than five or six before it just started to make her crazy.
Her mom claims she's not depressed and won't take meds in case they make her too numb. She gets upset sometimes and argues and criticizes and mopes and cries. She's not so bad most of the time but she has her bad days. She's a perfectionist, she gets upset when things go wrong.
So it's not such a terrible wonder when sometimes little miss Rebekah has her moody spells, is it? When she cries a lot and beats up on herself, glares at her reflection, steps on the scale over and over, hides her pain with a big old Cheshire cat grin. And it's not such a terrible surprise when her doctor brings up the possibility of depression, even though she ignores it 'cause hell she's like fifteen she doesn't have anything to be depressed about does she really?
She's kind of afraid to suggest the possibility to her parents. She doesn't want to seem like a drama queen or something, more than she already is.
But it's not too long before she's joined the Prozac nation.
Bekki St. James (age 15)
original character.