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Old Aug 08, 2015, 04:47 PM
CopperStar CopperStar is offline
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Originally Posted by LauraBeth View Post
CopperStar, I don't know how old you are, but I'm confused as to why it's your mother's responsibility for you to get the proper help? I understand that she's putting her needs before yours (I had a mother who did the same to me...for example, going away to college after high school was not an option for me because I had to take care of my mom), but I'm unclear as to why you can't get the help you need without your mother's permission.
I would never be approved for disability. I don't need it in the sense that I can function well enough to hold down a simple job, and I also have no paper trail for my psychotic episodes over the years, I was never taken to the hospital when I was psychotic. There is no help for me to get. Normally I would be homeless, which I was, but my mother will allow to me to live in her house. But I need transportation to get and hold a job. My mother could easily afford to give me that boost in getting back up on my feet. But she doesn't actually ever want me to ever get away from her. She has already failed miserably in her responsibility as a parent when I was a child and teenager, in ways that would need trigger warnings to explain. So her "responsibility" hasn't been an issue in years, that's done and over with. Most people couldn't understand I guess. If you didn't grow up abused and then find yourself at the mercy of your abuser, who doesn't ever want you to escape from them, unless you want to go die on the streets, then my feelings might not make sense to you.
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