Kelly, just keep telling yourself that soon you will be done with school and can leave. Do you have a plan for moving out? Are you going to get a job after high school? Go to college? Get an apartment with friends?

Your post reminds me a lot of the situation with my own mother when I was your age. I moved 1000 miles away after high school and it felt so good to put those miles between us. During most of my teen years, I used to cut myself to deal with the stress and pain of the relationship with my mother. As soon as I moved away, voila, no more cutting! So leaving home fixed a lot of my problems, at least the immediate ones.

Today I live much closer to my mother and father, and am on OK terms with both. I'll never be really close to my mother, but we have a cordial relationship. I think she has mellowed out with age.

Hang in there, Kelly. I bet you are counting the days until you can leave--it's very, very close. And then you will be free.