What the fack.

Okay, so my mom has this book club thing where she orders books and they mail them to her. One box with three books came today. Since I'm a curious person, I decided to check out what books she got. Two of them were insignificant to this post, and one is what I have to talk about.

My mom ordered a book called "Is Your Teen Stressed or Depressed? A Practical and Inspirational Guide for Parents of Hurting Teenagers."

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Excuse me!?

Let's take a look at this...
The first paragraph of the description is:

"The teen years are hard enough. But with today’s increased pressures to produce at school, stay in step with being cool, and manage a jam-packed schedule, it’s no wonder many teens are overwhelmed. The result is a generation experiencing greater stress and feeling more depressed than any other."

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
One. I don't go to school, so I have no pressures to produce at school. Two, I do NOT have even a SLIGHTLY "jam-packed" schedule. Three, "stay in step with being cool"?!? REALLY!? Do I seem like the type of person who worries about "being cool"?


Hold up! Wait a minute! It gets better! Let's read the last two paragraphs of the description.

"This book will inspire and equip parents to help their hurting teens. The well-known and widely respected author team of Dr. Catherine Hart Weber and Dr. Arch Hart help parents discover and identify nervousness, irritability, negativity, and low self-esteem, and determine whether their teen’s symptoms are caused by physical problems, raging hormones, stress, or depression. Offering practical suggestions, spiritual solutions, and encouragement, this resource helps parents and teens face their own feelings of fear, anger, and hurt.

Is Your Teen Stressed or Depressed? will help parents determine whether their child is simply acting like a hormone-raging teenager, or is actually suffereing from too much stress or even depression."


UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. REALLY?!

FIRST of all, there's a fepic typo in the description. "Suffereing", you say? Now what does THAT mean? Second of all, if they can't even spell suffering correctly, how are they supposed to be able to determine the difference between a "hormone-raging teenager" and a teenager with too much stress or depression?

Shouldn't people, ya know, leave that up to professionals to determine that sort of thing?

"this resource helps parents and teens face their own feelings of fear, anger, and hurt."

I seriously, ALMOST, can't believe my mom would buy a book like this. Just... UGH. I'm not mad at her or anything. More like taken aback that she thinks she needs a book to interpret my feelings, and that she thinks that a book probably written by Christians can help a mental problem such as depression through spiritual "solutions". If you're a real doctor, keep your spiritual crap out of my medicine. Please and thanks.

Everyone else, DFTBA.
Kay.