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indigoSquare8259
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my dad's sister just passed away from cancer
Grief & Loss / by indigoSquare8259
Last post
 September 1st, 2023
...See more my aunt (dad's sister) just passed away from cancer this morning and i don't know how to support my dad through this. he's leaving for india tmrw for the last rites and i want to be there for him and support him today but i don't know how. my dad has never really shown emotion and i've never had an emotional connection with him so i don't know how to support him
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I feel like my family doesn't love me
General Support / by indigoSquare8259
Last post
 July 23rd, 2023
...See more This is a problem I've had for a while but it started to become more apparent once my sister left for college. I'm the youngest in my family and it always feels like no one cares about me. It always feels like I am just someone who lives in the house and not actually a part of the family. My dad especially doesn't like me, or at least it seems. He always favors my sister over me and barely talks to me, and if he does talk to me he only yells at me to go do work for him or because of something I did wrong. My mom always says I can go to her if I have any problems with anything, but if I tell her about how I don't like how the family treats me, she tells me I am overreacting or says that that's not true and they don't treat me like that. When my sister is in college and it's just me with my parents at home, it's a little bit easier to communicate with my parents but the second my sister calls, I am completely ignored. And when she is home from college, I'm basically not there and I have to wait till she leaves the house to be able to say even a word to my parents about anything. If I ever bring this up, my parents and my sister just say that I don't come out of my room to talk to anyone and that's why I feel this way. But the truth is I have stopped trying to talk to my parents because no one listens to me or cares about what I have to say ever. Every time I try to interact with my family, they always bring me down and walk all over me. I am also the scapegoat and if anything goes wrong it's always my fault. My family is also very hypocritical, like my mom always tells me I look ugly with my glasses on but she doesn't let me get contacts and everyone complains about having to drive me places but they don't let me drive by myself even though I have my license. My sister also tries to create my whole life for me because she feels that since she's 2 years older than me she is much wiser but she doesn't realize that I don't want to be like her. She keeps telling me to do things that I don't want to do and she keeps trying to make me apply to certain colleges and take my dream school off of my college list because she thinks I have no chance of getting in. I feel like I can't accomplish anything until I move out because I feel so restricted and held back by my family. Every time I make a big decision and need my parents to do something to complete it (since I am still a minor) they always ask my sister what she thinks and if they should let me do something or not, and she hates me so she always says no because she doesn't want me to be "higher up" than she is or around the same level. I feel like I can't do anything by myself without asking for permission or telling them because of their judgement. I don't really know what to do because I have no one to talk to, no one listens to me ever in my family and I feel like I can't get anywhere in life life this.
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i just feel so broken
Depression Support / by indigoSquare8259
Last post
 April 10th, 2023
...See more i had midterms a few weeks ago and everything was going great and i did really well and i was happy but now I'm just burnt out and i feel so bad because i don't know how to be productive anymore so i just feel like a failure because i can't get anything done. i haven't been performing well in anything like my grades are going down and my performance in my sport is not great either. i feel like i need to do better but i can't bring myself to do anything about it. i feel unmotivated and hopeless and i don't know how to fix this.
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