Today, I found out the reason my mom took over 9 months to get me a therapist and much needed help after I told her how I had been depressed and suicidal for over two months. It wasn't because it was hard to find one, but actually because she thought I was making it up to cushion the fact that I got a C in a class. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mom found out that I've been having counselling behind her back for the past 4 years. I broke down in tears explaining everything. Her response was, "So you go and bitch about me behind my back?!" And she wonders why I'm depressed. FML
Today, and for the past year, I've been struggling with depression because of family life. I've been talking to my mom for the past weeks, telling her things that happen when she isn't home as a way to build trust. I finally told her I have depression and have had had it for a long time. She laughed. FML
Today, I finally convinced my mum to take me to a psychologist. As soon as he sat me down and asked me how I was doing, my mum burst into tears and went on a rant about how her life is terrible and she regrets everything. I was asked to sit in the waiting room. She used up my whole hour. FML
Today, my mother threw a fit because the psychologist she got me suggested I visit a psychiatrist. Apparently, it's my fault because I "choose" to be so "crazy". FML
Today, my mom found out I’m in therapy and took it as an insult, like therapy was a criticism of her parenting. Um, maybe if she hadn’t spent my childhood telling me and everyone in our family that having me was an accident, that I’ve been a huge burden, and that she should have aborted me. FML
Today, my mom told me I'm the reason she's going to kill herself one day. FML
Today, my mom read my diary. Then she frantically booked me an appointment with a psychiatrist. FML
Today, I learned that my mother has been telling people that I need anger management. I'm not attending anger management, I'm attending therapy to aid in my recovery from abusive relationships. She doesn't understand the difference or why I find it upsetting. FML
Today, I found out that the high school program that I was forced into, which kept me in school until I turned 21, was caused by my mom. She put me in the program without telling me and when I first learned about it, she pretended not to know anything so I wouldn't be mad at her. That was 10 years ago. FML
Today, after a lifetime of struggles, I was finally officially diagnosed with ADHD. Thanks to years of ridicule, punishments, humiliation and even beatings over something I literally could not control, I also have terrible depression and anxiety. My mom still thinks I’m making it all up. FML
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Top comments
Ambrily 27
Sometimes you manage to be actually funny, but many other times you're just sad and totally inappropriate.
RichardPencil 32
To be interesting, you have to take chances. Some people might like them and others might not. It's hit or miss.
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Comments (3)
RichardPencil 32
She probably went to the therapist first because she was depressed that she might have to support her dum-dum child for the rest of her life.
Ambrily 27
Sometimes you manage to be actually funny, but many other times you're just sad and totally inappropriate.
RichardPencil 32
To be interesting, you have to take chances. Some people might like them and others might not. It's hit or miss.
Mathalamus 25
Considering there are students who feel extremely pressured inschool, I’m not surprised she thought it was that, at first.
Chelsea Schattner 9
My parents never took my mental health concerns seriously and I went without until I was 26yo and decided I just ******* had it. I finally got the help I needed and it's like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.