Most people choose to be ok, but sometimes people take advantage of me because it's easy. My employer once just didn't give me my bonus even though I asked several times, or other times people at school call me names because they learned they can get away with it, my father and sister never have any respect for my personal time, and so on and so forth.

Now I feel someone else is taking advantage, perhaps not of me, but of a close relative, but it affects me by association. It's not my responsibility, and my parents told me to not say anything for now. I tell myself that my parents should be able to investigate the situation and hopefully take care of it as they seem capable and confrontational enough, but nevertheless it fills me with depression to contemplate that perhaps I am being taken for a fool once again, if only by association with this close relative and my parents who are involved.

I normally see everyone in my family as being more capable and strong than me, so I put faith in them to be able to handle things like this, even though I am an adult now.

I can only hope they don't feel as ashamed and impotent as I do. My response to moments like this is sometimes to self-harm or try to distract myself with self-improvement.