Are You A Pariah in Your Family?

Carol Burt
5 min readApr 6, 2020
Photo by Isaiah Bustad on Unsplash

You may not be the one with a problem.

Does mental illness make me a pariah in my own house with my own family? It certainly feels like it. I’m pretty sure others have felt the same.

If I’m in a bad mood, I’m asked if I took my medicine. My loved ones feel perfectly justified in taking my inventory. They have at times checked my med organizer to make…

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Carol Burt

Former print journalist, former mayor, retired law enforcement officer. Writing about politics and government along with random personal essays.