Can you talk to your parents about your problems?

[recluse]

I try to talk to my mother about stuff that bothers me and she gets angry at me and shouts at me to stop complaining.

I've got no one to talk to, if my own mother won't listen to my concerns who will?::

 

[PennyLane]

My mum listens and tries to understand but I think she gets frustrated. After a while she doesn't really want to hear anymore, she just wants it to get better, or for me to be making progress.

I think outwardly a lot of the time there doesn't seem like theres much wrong with me...so i reckon she'd like me to just 'snap out of it!' like im just being grumpy or moody rather than genuinely struggling with people!

She says she doesn't know how to help me.

 

[recluse]

My mum got really angry when i was first prescribed meds, she thinks i am just attention seeking.

 

[Bar-AKA-Redzer]

i have no parents to talk to and i live with me gran and i cant tell her and i need to tell someone because i am on the verge of killin myself because of my depression, i'll do it as soon as she dies i'll kill myself

 

[recluse]

I'm sorry to hear that redzer. Please don't say you'll kill yourself, you've got me worried now::

 

[Bar-AKA-Redzer]

dont worry man i'm alright for now, i had a talk with someone from here last night and i feel better, see the doc this moring too and he give me some tablets

 

[Meggerz88]

I think is it really sad that some of you have tried to open up to your parents to get that kind of crap back from them. I have talked to my mom out of necessity and she is very supportive. She has dealt with and overcome a lot of mental illnesses herself, so she knows what I am going through. I haven't mentioned anything to my dad about it though (my parents are divorsed but I see both of them equally much). It isn't that I couldn't talk to my dad about it... I'm sure he would be fine. He is just very much socially anxious himself and has never sought help for it, so I'm not sure how that conversation would go. Plus I feel more awkward talking about personal problems with him. I know I should at least tell him about it, even though he already knows through other people and it being obvious by my behavior, but I don't know how to bring it up and am too afraid...

 

[javoon]

yea same thing with me if i try talking to my mom she says im feeling sorry for my self and i need to get over it..soo frustrating