Over-medicated? Or a family history of mental illness?

Grimma would suggest Aunt Brie should think twice about having children given the history of mental illness in their family, but Aunt Brie wonders if they weren't just over-medicated.

"My challenge is myself, and my whole fucked up family history, and my own flaws. I need to stop caring what other people think so much so that I don’t extinguish what makes my daughter a heroine — or even worse, medicate and prescribe her with disorders where none exist."

Here is an excerpt of Aunt Brie's blog from April 24, 2019:

Is Your Child a Piece of Work? Come out of the Woodwork

April 24, 2019

"Before I had kids, I would often have telephone conversations with my mom in which she would say: “Are you sure you want to have children given the history of mental illness in our family?”"

"My challenge is myself, and my whole fucked up family history, and my own flaws. I need to stop caring what other people think so much so that I don’t extinguish what makes my daughter a heroine — or even worse, medicate and prescribe her with disorders where none exist. I struggle every day with what makes a person who they are, and what is good or bad. I think often about whether or not my siblings were victims of our circumstances, or born the way we were. I wonder especially if we were over-medicated. But I also need to up setting boundaries, especially in regards to sugar, which 100% makes Cleo crazy. I have a hard time with the sugar thing because I was not allowed to eat sugar, and any sort of control is triggering, for me, reminding me of the miserable parts of my childhood."

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