Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)
If, by "atypical", they mean "we don't know what's going on; this wasn't like the other ones", then not so weird at all, as there is a tremendous amount of variation in the human species, and medicine is slow to catch up.
But yes, I am giving you a serious answer to a question you were probably not seeking a serious answer to. This was probably meant to be a rhetorical question. Silly me.
You are exceptionally silly. And I find it in my heart to forgive you. (The basis of 'atypical', as I understand, is that it's inconstant and may be affected by outside events. Something can happen that makes me happy briefly, and then I get depressed again.)
Well, all my bouts of depression have been atypical then. But they've felt quite typical to me -- that very inconsistency that they label "atypical" is a trait that I find to be quite typical in my experience. Maybe this tendency towards contraryness when it comes to medical diagnoses is the reason why I'm not a psychologist.
I should probably also posit that these are clinical depressions, as I realise that I don't know what sort you have. But yes, your natural contrariness means that you probably have a garden full of silver bells and cockle shells also.
I've had a few different diagnoses, to be honest. I don't believe in or agree with half of them. <------Proof of contraryness.
And how did you know so much about my garden? I also tried to get the pretty maids all in a row, too, but hired help is so expensive these days, and most labor unions won't allow me to select the maids based on attractiveness.
Trust me, I've been keeping an eye on your garden. (Go the Disney route--don't hire them as 'agricultural labor', hire them as actors who just happen to also do gardening work. Then it's legal to use attractiveness as a scale point.)
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Date: 2010-07-12 08:24 pm (UTC)Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-13 05:12 am (UTC)But yes, I am giving you a serious answer to a question you were probably not seeking a serious answer to. This was probably meant to be a rhetorical question. Silly me.
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:28 am (UTC)And I find it in my heart to forgive you.
(The basis of 'atypical', as I understand, is that it's inconstant and may be affected by outside events. Something can happen that makes me happy briefly, and then I get depressed again.)
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Date: 2010-07-13 09:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-13 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-13 09:21 am (UTC)And how did you know so much about my garden? I also tried to get the pretty maids all in a row, too, but hired help is so expensive these days, and most labor unions won't allow me to select the maids based on attractiveness.
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Date: 2010-07-13 09:47 am (UTC)(Go the Disney route--don't hire them as 'agricultural labor', hire them as actors who just happen to also do gardening work. Then it's legal to use attractiveness as a scale point.)