[Marshellette]

When I take my Neurontin my mom calls me names. "Drug adddict" "basket case." "You're making a mess of your brain," she says. Eventually, worn down by the ridicule and name calling I stop taking up my Neurontin and end up a mess. How can I not yield to her calling me a drug addict, convincing my confused brain I don't need this "cancer potion" and that I'm not a drug addict as she calls me nearly every day. I achieve one hour of sleep without Neurontin. I achieve an average of five to six hours a night on it. How can I make her see, I've been trying to convince her for four years it's good for me. All I've ever dreamed of is parents supportive of healing from this deadly disease that kills 1/5 people from exhaustion? Are your parents supportive of your meds? My dad is overboard supportive wants me to take shots in the leg. My mom would rather have me lose my mind than pop a Tylenol... Help me, I'm drowning. Forever. I have no sense of autonomy. After three weeks I stop taking everything as prescribed and lapse into a blob.Granted Neurontin will make you stupid and horny like pot but it all makes me sleep.

Are you old enough to live on your own?

[Nammu]

Have you talked to your Pdoc and T about how this situation is an obstacle to your health? This situation is seriously detrimental to your physical and mental health.

Can you ask about independent living programs that might be healthier? Foster care?

This may be a dumb question, but does she need to know when you take it? Is it possible to leave her out of the loop?

If you need her to pay or pick it up, could you get your dad to do it instead since he's more supportive? That way your mother doesn't even need to know about it.

When I was younger I eventually cut my parents out of my struggles because they were just contributing to the problem. As nice as it would be to have supportive parents, it's a total crapshoot whether we're born into that reality or not. We can't change what they're like... all we can control is how much we're willing to let them bring us down. The fact that they're related to you doesn't mean they have the right to prevent you from getting better, and it doesn't make you a bad person if you limit your interaction with your parents in order to protect yourself. It's important to have a relationship with your family, but it's more important that you're able to move forward and have a life of your own beyond them.

[Marshellette]

Originally Posted by Trebyn

This may be a dumb question, but does she need to know when you take it? Is it possible to leave her out of the loop?

If you need her to pay or pick it up, could you get your dad to do it instead since he's more supportive? That way your mother doesn't even need to know about it.

When I was younger I eventually cut my parents out of my struggles because they were just contributing to the problem. As nice as it would be to have supportive parents, it's a total crapshoot whether we're born into that reality or not. We can't change what they're like... all we can control is how much we're willing to let them bring us down. The fact that they're related to you doesn't mean they have the right to prevent you from getting better, and it doesn't make you a bad person if you limit your interaction with your parents in order to protect yourself. It's important to have a relationship with your family, but it's more important that you're able to move forward and have a life of your own beyond them.

I would but my dad is bipolar and thinks the FBI is after him.

[monkeybrains21]

If u have a state ID or license have him give u the money for it and u can pick it up urself. Then he won't worry about FBI and u get ur meds without mom finding out