There is so much stuff wrong in my life that I don't even know where to start. I know I know...instead of looking at the negative I should look at the positive. I can tell you that positive thoughts are not going to help me. I hate my job, I hate my situation, I hate the path I've chosen...everything I have ever done I hate. Except building my car...but that is not the point. I haven't done one thing in my life to contribute to society, therefore my existance is completely moot. It means nothing. I never have, currently don't and never will feel the urge to make somebody else happy. That is just how I am. If I am not going to help anybody else, why should I be here?
Also something I believe to be causing me so much heartache is the fact that the world sucks. There is so much violence and selfishness. Nobody gives a crap anymore. People die every day. The price of everything is skyrocketing. Reality is cold and harsh, to everybody, all the time. I don't want to live in this kind of troubled world. I hate to see people and animals suffer, and it's only getting worse. I realize that I may sound self contradictory there by saying I feel sorry for people but I don't want to help anybody out. They aren't the same thing. Yeah, I'm sorry it sucks for you, but I can't help. That is the way I look at it.
I can't concentrate anymore. Everything is just a blur and I am very forgetful. I couldn't even remember 3 things on a list today at the store. It is getting worse. I just don't know what to do anymore. I am out of options. The ER is out of the race, so is MHMR...the only way left is with cold hard cash, and that is something that is very scarce for me, and will be so for a long time to come.
Sigh...there is this deep dreadful feeling through out my body but I can't explain it any type of comunication. I can't type it, I can't say it, I can't draw it....I just don't know how to get it out. Maybe I never will....I just wish I never would have been born.
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Things always seem to get better, like I'm actually going to start moving forward in my life, but it never fails that something has to come along and ruin it, set me back to sqaure one. My mom, step dad and I moved into this house in January of this year. It is a decent house, though it's old, it is still a hell of a lot better than that appartment we were staying at. The bad things about this house are that it is owned by my grandparents (mom's parents) and the rent is outrageous. Also, the cockroaches are pretty disgusting. Other than that though, it's a good place to live. If you will recall, I have been working for my grandparents for the past several months on their farm where they live. Since the first day I started going out there, I hated it because of the way I was treated and how they made me feel. With their passive aggressiveness and guilt trips, they controlled me completely, like a pupet. They would do things like buy me new tires for my car and give me "incentives" to add to their manipulation. The farm "job" wasn't even that at all...it wasn't like a real job where you go to work, do your time and leave. You know, there is no attachments to any of your co-workers or bosses or anything. You aren't connected to them in any way other than at your job. This farm thing wasn't like that. Even though they spent the whole day talking to me while I was there, they deemed it necessary to call and talk for hours more after I left. Pretty much every word they spoke was something extremely manipulative, such as "We bought you tires for your car, but that's ok....we wanted to. You don't have to worry about it..." but they clearly weren't serious. Constantly things like that were said in that passive agressive manor. Well anyways...after about three months of dealing with this every day, I had enough. I just didn't go out there on Monday (Memorial Day) or Tuesday or yesterday. I just didn't go...no phone call to them or anything.
Now, before I go on anymore about that, let me back up and explain something else. When we moved in here, my grandparents told my mom that they would not bother her. They had a bunch of problems in their past when my mom was a little girl and she said that she did not want them over here everyday causing her more stress. They agreed. They said they would not call or come over for any reason unless something was wrong, or if she asked them to. That was the agreement between them. Unfortunately my grandparents didn't keep their word and bothered her almost every day. I would come home from the farm and my mom would be crying and stressed out because they had used their manipulation on her as well. That has gone on since we have been here. For about the past month now, she has been saying that we are going to move out because she cannot handle her parents and how they act. In some ways I thought maybe she had a good idea because it would get me away from them too. On the other hand, I love my basement. It's as big as the whole house and it's all mine. It's almost like my own little secluded appartment. I really like it and don't want to move out of it. Anyways...the point of me explaining my mom is I guess like that saying "shit rolls downhill" because I catch it from my grandparents, and then from her again. It's like a double whammy and it took it's toll on me. I don't know how much more of it I can handle, either physically or mentally.
OK now that your eyes hurt from reading all that, this is what happened to cause this major problem....I said before that I haven't gone out there this week at all, even though I was supposed to. I am at my limit and I was afraid that if I went out there and one tiny thing was said in a manipulative manner, I would blow up on them. I mean...they're my grandparents and don't get me wrong, I do love them, which is why I didn't want to scream at them. I thought it was best to just stay away until I could calm down. I knew it would piss them off that I wasn't there when I said I would be...but I thought that may be better than ruining whatever kind of screwed up relationship we had. Since I stopped going out there, they have been on my mother even worse than before, and I'm still catching what seems like an even more intense (if that's possible) amount of stress and anxiety from her because of them. Yesterday when she woke up she was crying and said she felt like freaking out, so I sat down with her and tried to explain that they were getting what they wanted by making her feel like that. I told her to not let them win anymore and for her to stand up and say "enough". I can say one thing, I bet I could easily manipulate anybody I wanted just from learning how to do it by watching my family, a bunch of manipulating bastards. So I know all to well what game my grandparents were playing with her. Getting her to feel guilty and cry. They thrive on that shit. Well...the day continued and she seemed to feel better and I thought maybe I had got through to her...but then around 4:30 in the afternoon, the phone rang and within 30 seconds of her answering it, she was balling again like a little baby. So I had to sit there and listen to her cry and blame herself for everything thats wrong in my life, hers, and everybody else's. Well it upset me pretty badly, made me mad. I picked up the phone and called my grandparents back and told them that I didn't appreciate their little head games and it was time for them to play them with somebody else and to leave us alone. I screamed that at my grandmother and she told me not to tell her about it, to call my grandpa. So that is what I did. I called him on his cell and told him the same thing and he called me a worthless liar. So I told him he would get his check in the mail as soon as I had the money to pay him back. All the stuff he bought for me like the tires and parts and gas...I was supposed to work it all off for payment. I just can't do that. I will pay him back eventually, because I am good for my word and not a liar, and he'll eat a little crow.
Anyways, now we have to move out regardless of who wants to or not because they don't want us here anymore. It is my fault because I am the one that stood up to them. A person can only be pushed so far, and it isn't right that they get every little thing how they want it when they want it. This situation is on a hair-trigger, right now, one wrong word, as small as "or" could send somebody through the roof. My mom wants me to start packing all my stuff up because she said she can't take it here anymore. I agree...my grandparents have ruined her life again, as well as mine. This puts me all the way back to sqaure one, again...now I'm jobless and moneyless and everything, just like before. Only now, it is pointless to even find a job in this state because she says we are moving to a completely different state, probably Kansas. So I'm just gonna have to stick it out for the next few months...will lose the internet again, go without smokes. The worst thing of all though, is I will probably have to sell my car to contribute to the move. I have put so many hours and sweat and blood into that car...over a year. It means a lot to me and I don't want to sell it, especially if I don't even get to keep any of the money...but this whole mess is my fault because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. Oh well...what I said to them needed to be said because they have no right treating everybody like their personal slaves....
Ok...I'm done rambling now...hope that's long enough for you. Oh...and to make this complete, I say this....AS USUAL....I still don't feel any better after writing this all out.
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You may not feel any better after writing it out but it is still good for you to do. I'm so proud of you for standing up for yourself and for your mother. I hate that the outcome will result in you having to move and start over again but maybe that is what is needed for you and your mom right now. I'm impressed with the maturity in which you handled the whole situation!
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My son and I went through the same thing but he was only 14 now hes twenty four,he moved in with his Dad when he was 18.He works for his fathers bueisness and goes through alot the same thing as you did on the farm.he works all day with his dad as the Boss then comes home and lives with him .Its alittle bit to much at times he says.both my parents died two years ago and now i miss them I would gladly play the mind games again just to have them back.So hold on even though our life seems overwelming ,it allso keeps changeing as time goes by.
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You write very expressively - do you know how smart you are? You could go far with that yno. Yeah, I think it's best to not fuel your grandparents anymore and let them stew on their own. I hope things turn out ok, you are going through a lot. Just find somewhere to settle then write back to us x
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OH,no it is NOT your fault. You know your mom blaming herself for your condition (even though I am sure she contributed to it, was not intentional) And it is not your fault, either for standing up to your grandparents. That is part of THEIR manipulation, to make you feel guilty....posh. THEY have spent many, many years building the life they have built for themselves. And a life that is built on guilt and manipulation is not much of a life, and certainly may influence people, but doesn't win any friends. You are doing a great thing, Gberg. You are not only stading up to your grandparents, you are standing up FOR your mom and for yourself. It is a very scary thing, but you are also cutting generational ties that are very destructive to the members of your family. If your grandparents choose to continue in their manipulative ways, (and chances are, they will) that is too bad for them.
The difficulty will be now, to not go back into it. STAND YOUR GROUND. And have some patience with your mom, cause she is going to have to learn how to not let them do that, and it will take her some time....just keep helping her open her eyes and direct her back to the truth, and exposing that manipulation for what it is. WELL DONE!!!
I believe, since you have taken that leap of faith, your needs, like a new job, will come your way more easily now...just keep praying and seeking God, that is what I am having to learn now, myself. It is so easy to fall out of that discipline when you are not in a crisis that makes you take to your knees...but if you can figure out that praying beforehand makes a way before you, it is much easier. Just so hard to do!!!
I am very proud of you!!!
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Hey hon, you can talk to me if you wish. i will be here to listen to you and support you anyway I can.
ElizabethAngel1989
i know how you feel (well not exactly) and i spose u have heard my fave so far "things will get better" *mimics* what is there after death tho? hell? (nothing agaisnt you i just dont believe in heaven) sounds like ur having a rough time and i really wish there was something i could do to help you if i had money to give you it would be in ur bank b4 u could say yippee (am skint myself so would be useless lol) all i can do is try and offer support if eva u wanna chat im here venting is good x also my msn is yellow.jo@hotmail.co.uk im on now if you want to chat! chat on here is shit lol xxxxx
nohope18
i am so sorry hunni. things will get better. i promise. stay here with us. we will help u.
imissudad07