I do get a chuckle from some of the diaries though. Mostly these are written by young people, caught up in the throes of their daily drama. I wish there was a way I could let them know that the world they find so drastic and dramatic mellows quite a bit as they grow older. With the teen hormones flooding their systems, everything seems so much bigger than it actually is.
I also find some diaries that give me cause to shake my head. How many times can you read in one diary that a person is going to kill themself? While I would be the first to lend a hand or shoulder to cry on to someone in this situation, I came across one diary who has made this threat empty. Reading back for about a year, this person has said at least once a week that it would be the last entry as they were going to kill themself that night. This person seems to be living the fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
That diary brought me to thinking about this subject. How many people are in your life who seem to be constantly depressed, but at the same time it seems like they are affecting this attitude for attention? After taking that person seriously for years, yet seeing no fruition to repeated threats, can you really take them seriously with the next threat? Do you offer them help, or suggestions on how to do it? (I know, sick and demented thinking with the offering... )
My #3 some is something like this. If you look under hypochondria you will see his picture. Every little bump that would make another child his age perhaps say ouch, is met with wails and screams of anguish. Members of my family get frustrated with me when he screams and I ignore it. I don't believe I am exaggerating when I estimate that less than 1 out of 10 times he screams in anguish, there is actually something wrong. People have told me that I have to give him attention in order to get him to stop this behavior. I disagree, I think it was the attention that taught him to have the behavior.