Auto-SummaryThis forum post details a user's troubled relationship with their parents, who have been separated for three years and are emotionally distant. The user feels neglected, unsupported, and confused, leading to poor academic performance and drug use. Despite occasional gestures of care, the user struggles with fear, anger, and a lack of guidance. They mention considering self-harm and ending their life but ultimately seek help. The post concludes with the user contemplating drug use for comfort and exploring self-sufficiency through plant cultivation. The summary emphasizes the user's need for support and guidance to overcome their struggles and find a healthier path forward.
tool_head said: Back when I was little, I had what I pictured the "perfect family". It consisted of my mother, my father, my dog Mookie and I (my sister was not yet born). We lived in a somewhat poor neighborhood but I was extremely happy regardless. My parents loved and cared for me, I played sports with my dad and little league baseball, and my mother was always there to support me and talk to me. She helped me with my homework and made sure I did well in school. I was a straight A student. Everything was great.
A few years later, we moved to a new town. My parents began to argue consistently. They would shut the door and all I would hear was yelling and screaming. No physical violence, but witnessing the vulgarity scarred me emotionally. I still remember the feelings of dread as I witness them shouting at the top of their lungs. I cried. A year later, my father, an attorney, moved to an apartment a town away. There was a lot of turmoil and my mother warned me that my parents might get divorced. This scared the shit out of me. While they never got legally divorced, they have been separated for around three years now. They are as distant as could be. They both claim to love and care about me but our relationships are nonexistant. The only time I talk to my mother, who I live with, is when I want food or money to go out and do drugs with my friends. My father, who I do not live with, often stops by and he too makes small talk sometimes but that's the furthest extent. Once in a while he'll theorize about where I could go to college or something but nothing more than that. I sit in my room all day on my computer or go out with my friends. Not to mention my grades have gone to shit.
I have memories of my father enraged. He's punched holes in the walls when I took a detour when I was supposed to meet him at my Grandma's because I thought I saw a suspicious gang. He's smashed a rolltop desk in front of me while screaming at the top of his lungs because I misplaced after he bought me a video card. He's literally kicked my ass up the stairs of my house- hard too. He's flipped out on MANY occasions like this; these are just the ones that come to mind. I am forever frightened of my father. I am literally fucking afraid of him.
A few minutes ago I was caught sniffing Oxycontin outside my house by mom who I apparently woke up. She screamed at me and went back to bed. I find it ironic that she should yell at me for waking her up and not even care that I was sniffing drugs right in front of her.
My parents: -Buy me _everything_ I want. No questions asked.
-Cook for me.
-Take me places.
-Look at my report card when it comes.
That's about it. I feel like they don't give a shit about me at all. I have no aim in life and I don't know what to with myself and they haven't given me any guidance or support whatsoever. It's been like this for several years now. They claim to love me and my mom obligates me to hug and kiss her all the time but I really think she is just a zoloft dependent bitch who's afraid of being seen as a "bad mother". My parents do not talk to each other ever really and I believe they are both dating other people (I have no clue if they actually are or not - like I said, we rarely talk.)
My mother put me in therapy and insists that I am prescribed to some sort of anti-depressant. I think she just wants to give me a "quick fix" and not realize her own faults. I don't think any drug in the world could possibly mend this shattered relationship. It feels terrible and like I stated earlier, I'm more fucking confused than I've ever been. Guess I'll keep playing computer games and doing drugs all day. I don't know what else to do. Fuck this.
I really need help from someone, somehow. I'm going insane. I've considered taking my own life before but I don't think that I'd actually commit to it. I'm too much of a pussy. Oh yeah, and I have court tommorrow in three or four hours for possession of marijuana that I didn't even have, the cop straight up lied. I can't stand this anymore. Help me. Someone.
This Oxycontin is at least making things seem a hell of a lot easier. I feel a LITTLE bit less like a worthless piece of shit right now. Maybe I will go jerk off to porn as I'll never get laid myself let alone kiss a girl.
Make of it what you will, after reading your post about 3/4 the way through I smoked some marijuana.
Do not kill yourself, you know what it is you wish to do.
You like drugs? I like drugs, I hate my mother whom I live with, and my father isn't seen much, despite deep down being as of yet the only person I feel any "divine connection," or "love" towards... I've had an addiction specialist comment in a positive light about my drug use...
If you have lots of spare time and you're already way into drugs, (such as oxy, which I was into when I had a job last year and could support heavy-abuse) you should consider putting forth some research and embarking on that wonderful journey of self-sufficiency.
I don't know your property, but research various plants and begin to look for areas to put them.
Growing plants, just the action of cultivation, is relaxing in itself, you have something to tend for, something to wait for, something to stay for... you can develop a little relationship with the plants. If you can get lost in plant cultivation you're GTG, despite perhaps morphing into a "weird" eccentric plant-lover, you'll be happy.
You can learn your psyche better through isolation, and other venues, just explore it. Learn to regulate compulsory-drives to modulate your neurochemical comstituency, learn to work -WITH- the effects of a lower dose, learn how to take drugs in the safest manner...
I'm still working on these things, as humans we're quite prone to mistakes... ok, well, it didn't work: try a different code. *
Don't be stupid though, don't do anything illegal... riiiiight?
A certain Papaver begin to flower after the death of my close cousin. Sometimes "they" time it quite well.
If you like computers, try considering the world a big program*, you have the ability to interpret, receive and project code... use the right code and you create something new, or fix an old problem, etc... or create new ones. Regardless, it's probably a big fucking cosmic game the consummation of which is much more unexplanable than often made out to be, but certainly nothing to worry about; and nothing to rush to either.
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