Now that's not true, and I think you know it! This is coming from a university dropout who still finds purpose in life now and again. I have bipolar II, and it does sound like you could have bipolar too. Don't let your parents tell you who you are or what you're allowed to feel. You have your whole life ahead of you. Don't make hasty decisions that you can't regret afterwards, if you know what I'm saying. It's just impossible to know, at your age, how life is going to turn out. It might turn out as badly as you're expecting now, but it probably won't. For most people it doesn't. I can promise you, though, it gets a lot better when your parents start behaving like the good little children they are. And I think they will come to their senses somewhere down the line. We're all children, in a sense. It became clear to me when I was about your age just how childish my parents were. Now I have my own place, and that has made all the difference.