Okay, it's time to get my name up on the webpage........so here goes! My name is Steve, 32y/o male from central Nebraska. Lived here all my life and a typical Big Red fan.

Been diagnosed as Co-dependent (1993), Bipolar (1998), Avoidant Personality (1999), and
who knows what else they just haven't identified yet.

Moved around alot as a kid, alcoholic parents, abusive father (for my first 13 years), and sexually abusive grandfather (around age 7). I was always the quiet one that didn't say much and my brother was the loud one who never met a person he didn't like. He is also bipolar (borderline and doesn't require meds) and one uncle is too. So ......bipolarism runs in the family.

I'm on MUCH better terms with my father now and try to get together with him as much as possible since we ironed out alot of the shit he pulled when I was growing up. I graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1996 with a B.S. degree in Social Science with an emphasis in History. After college, I worked for and earned my Journeyman's license in plumbing and worked in that trade until being laid off in 1998. I then went to work for a local manufacturer as a CNC programmer (I programmed industrial
machines to punch/cut/bend sheet metal into parts). It was while I worked there in 2000 that I was involved in an industrial accident that rendered me unable to work for several months and left me with permanent muscle damage to my back. I was setting up an industrial drill press to cut plastic disks when it caught my glove and pulled
me into it, wrapping my left arm and shoulder around the shaft. I moped around for a few months and then gave myself a swift kick in the ass.

In late 2000, I started work at the local Wal-Mart as an Inventory Control Specialist. The ICS position was a new thing then and in the last three years, with ever changing rules and team members, my store was listed as the #3 store in the United States. That leads me to now. I work at Wal-Mart and give partial care, to a mother who is disabled with rheumatoid arthritis. I have been lucky I guess. I have a supportive family, a good Pdoc, a good employer, and life is pretty good. Anyway, there is the story on the group
comic as Del calls me. LOL

Welcome to the group and hope you enjoy your stay.