All the more reason for you to take my challenge. When I was in eighth grade, my mother didn't have a clue about my "real" life. She never got one either. I'm now 57 and she is deceased. I am bipolar and was all my life and when I was little she beat me because I wouldn't behave. Bipolar children don't "behave".

Please go to a school counselor or a hospital. They will eventually get your parents involved, it's the law. But at least you will get help. I don't want a wonderful young woman like you to die. And that's where drug addiction leads a lot of the time.

We really care about you here. Please go and let us know how you are.