Depression Support Group
Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.
I just ran away. It's not forever, I'll go back in a few hours, but I can't stay in that house anymore.
This last year I stopped living under my Dad's roof and started to live under my Mother's.
I've never really been close with my immediate family at my Dad's and I've had a rocky relationship with them all, especially my step mother.
I was pouring my six year old sister a drink and took a small sip. Because I took a sip, she took of crying. My step mother came in and started to get mad at me. Telling me she's only six and she thinks it's for her and how it was so wrong of me to do that.
She looked me square in the eye and looked at me like I was some rotten piece of crap and told me, DRINK IT, I DARE YOU.
I just left after she was done lecturing me.
My parents divorced when I was 12 and I had to live with my mother. My mother started dating a guy from a bar and he began staying over. I never liked him, I just had a bad feeling. They married when I graduated high school and I ran off with my high school sweet heart without a blink of an eye. I just wanted to get away.
Now I'm in my late 20's and they are still married. My mother complains to me constantly about him and how she just wishes he would leave. Her codependency has rubbed off which sucks.
To this day, he at any given moment will break into me with the most hurtful untrue words anyone could ever say to another person. It's hard! I know I can' change him but I'm aware that "hurt people, hurt people" it is the only thing they know.
Now I have a son too and his father is absent. Having a boyfriend is hard. My boyfriend doesn't have children and is a couple years older then me. It is not easy being a mother, I have know idea what I'm doing. On top of that I am struggling with trying to have a integrated family. I want to get married eventually and have another child but uhg it's deff not easy.
sorry I went on a rant there but I hope this helps.