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Feeling like I'm getting crushed

wolverine22
wolverine22
These last several days have been awful. I can't shake the feelings of worthlessness sometimes I feel like I'm in my own personal hell: I know I can't and won't kill myself, and so the suffering continues. I have an overbearing mother and a homophobic, mysogynist father who likes to make inappropriate comments about women all the time, and so I'm trapped in the closet at home. I guess you don't know what you've got until it's gone, right? I should have enjoyed my two-year respite from them while I could, as now I'm back home to finish my degree.
Community LeaderThePepperMan
ThePepperMan
Can you distance yourself, emotionally, from your parents? This is hard since they should be your best source of support. But I find that "devaluing" what a person means to me when they are negative is helpful.

Gentle hugs
Misssy2
Misssy2
It truly is hell to not be able or really WANT to kill ourselves and then have to put up with all the bullshit.

Keep putting one foot in front of the other..get thru college....keep your eye on the goal. keep busy...study at library or at school....be home as little as possible....that's all I can think of.

Sounds like a "trapped" feeling and I hate that too.
anneccleaver
anneccleaver
I'm right there with you... I have to pay off my community college before I can move on and transfer my files to a different one, I was going to skip this process and be a lower level nurse and work my way up from there but I figured out that would have been waste of money too so I am back at square one. Well... just keep busy I guess and do things that make you happy.. or try to. I'm struggling with finding enough time to make me happy outside of working overtime. I may have to make it a one day a week project.. if my mom doesn't demand it from me. I am going to just have to give her the keys to my car I guess and say I;m sorry I feel like doing this today, and see her get mad or upset with me.