Chapter - Mental Health and Public Life
Chapter – Mental Health and Public Life I’m an introvert. I’m physically sick before trying new things or hopping on a stage. I want to be in charge. I want to get things done and most often think I can get it done if I move to a leadership position. These two traits don’t fit. I’ve hidden this struggle. Then I crashed. Now I know how to manage it. Maybe. The stress of trying something new has always haunted me. My dad took eight year old Frankie with him to a company golf tournament and I was ill in the car going there. My dad came to a ‘father/son’ dinner at Cubs and I spent most of the time in the washroom. I went to 9 schools in 12 years yet shook in fright every first day of school. At every new school I just wanted to run home, and one time in grade 4 I did only to have my mom walk me back again. Grownup Frank is the same. I teach a small business course at UVic and for the very first class in 2000 I could barely get there on time. Oh, I was at U