Douglas Allen Gorin

Douglas Allen Gorin born 1977 to Barbara Thompson and Jeff Gorin. My birthday is a special day to me because it is the first of March. I am the first to march on a battle field. I am very competitive and am not afraid to fight for what I want. This aggressive behavior has led many to believe that I am mentally ill. I don't want to be associated with the mentally ill community but, it seems that I can not function well enough for my friends and family without my medicine. When you think of mental ill people usually what comes to mind are serial killers and the like. I have never been one of those types of people. In fact, it hurts my feelings to think I have something in common with violent criminals. My father has always been said to have an untreated mental illness. My mother has clinical depression. I grew up in Memphis TN among a family in peril. My mother ran out on my father when I was just a baby because of the physical abuse. She took my older sister and I away from Jeff because of his violent outbursts. I am sure that I remind my mother of my father and that is why I have always as long as I can remember been on medicine. For better or worse the medicine shaped me.