Posted by SLS on November 8, 2022, at 11:30:06
In reply to Im in trouble. Please help, posted by Lamdage22 on November 8, 2022, at 0:53:57
> Hi Guys, I am being emotionally abused by both parents. One is controling and manipulating me with the help of his financial resources, the other one shames me for not having a handle on my life.
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>I encourage you to consider writing a (civil) letter describing how you experience life. Educate them about mood disorders, and that how your depressive thoughts and feelings are beyond your control. You have a brain disorder, not a characterological weakness. Explain that your inability to function and create a healthy and independent life for yourself is impossible with the way your illness affects your thoughts, feelings, motivation, and energy level. Your illness is no more under your control than Parkinsons or epilepsy would be.
Be truthful about how their behavior affects you, and how it sabotages your efforts to move forward in life. Print out education materials to accompany your letter. They will see that doctors and scientists affirm everything you have explained to them. You love them and need them. Let them know that.
Good luck.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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