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Originally Posted by golden_eve
You are most certainly being mistreated and verbally/emotionally abused. Terms such as selfish, brat, irresponsible, etc, are character assassination terms, which is abusive. Turning the tables around on you and blaming YOU, when you try to tell them how you feel about their treatment of you, is abusive. Invalidating your feelings is abusive. So yes, you are being emotionally abused, and I am very sorry to hear it. As the poster above says, they are not a good support for you. Can you seek additional outside support on your own? I hope?
And yes, you have every right to be upset. Please don't internalize their characterizations of you -- those are their twisted words that hold no value or validity. Keep your head high and believe in yourself and your own reality of what is happening with you. (((((((Hugs))))))))
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Thank you, and the above poster, for your support. I'm not sure where else I could go to get help - even posting on these forums is risky, I can't usually access them unless I'm at school. Other than that, since I'm a minor and still medically dependent on them, almost everything will circulate back to them somehow. If I talk to a school counselor about feeling mentally ill, they'll have to tell my parents because that would be the only way to get me the treatment I need. And that would defeat the purpose of talking to a counselor instead of my parents in the first place.
Identifying that I'm being mistreated seems to be helping me keep a bit of a grip on reality at the moment, but it's incredibly difficult to convince myself that it isn't all my fault.