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Do I need to see someone?
I don't have a very close relationship with any of my family and the communication is poor, I have to travel every weekend to see my Dad, me and my Mum really do not get on that well, and I just find the rest of my family irritating. I know they only want to take an interest in me and what's happening in my life and everything but I don't like talking to them.
This all got worse when my Granddad died 3 years ago, my grades went down, I never completed homework, I wanted to do it I just don't know why I didn't. I had my whole family telling me I had an attitude, when all I really wanted was for them to leave me alone and stop asking me questions.
On Tuesday my aunt died from an eight year cancer battle and I didn't cry, so my family thought I didn't completely understand, I did, I just don't know why I didn't cry, probably because my Granddad would of told me to stop. I just kept a fake smile up all day. The next day I had to go out for a meal with my Mum and my Nan and I was unresponsive the whole way through, I tried not to eat much as I hadn't eaten for a couple of days before. My Mum was getting annoyed with me because apparently I was being rude but my Nan said I just had a lot going on in my head. I just feel so guilty because I want to say that it's not all about my aunt, that's not the only reason i'm being like this, I guess I can just use this as an excuse to act like this.
Anyway recently I have noticed that I'm really not okay. I seem happy at school, but I'm just hyper and dead inside. I don't mind being left alone at home but if my 'friends' walk off without me I'll start to panic and need to catch up with them, i can't order food alone or buy anything on my own, I can't talk on the phone and I can't walk around school on my own. I constantly seem to be bored and keep forgetting what I'm meant to be doing, I just feel empty all the time just like I have no emotion. I have cried myself to sleep the past to night so hard I could hardly breathe because of the guilt. I have been self harming on off for 3 years now and it's starting to become an addiction. I get jealous of other peoples cuts, burns and bruises. I have a tumblr and it can be an extreme trigger at times. But it's the only thing that gets me through the week. I think about dying every day, like I'll be sitting in a lesson and coming up with ideas, thinking about the best place to hang myself, thinking about how long it would take. Recently I have been having huge huge urges to cut my neck, not in an attempt to kill myself, it's just an urge.
I've also been having a re-occurring image in my head of my aunt led on a metal table in the morgue and all I can feel in my mind is cold, diseased flesh and it will not go away. I can't get rid of it.
My arms and legs are all red from trying to cut the guilt out/away, it just feels like a release and I'm scared because I'm running out of space where people can't see and I don't want to disappoint my Dad as we're meant to be going on holiday in July and I know some of them will still be visible.
I've also been getting angry over the smallest things like if I have to repeat myself or explain someone again and again, or if people keep asking me questions. I get even more angry when people try to tell me I'm being aggressive though. I'm not like this towards my 'friends', only my family and it's not fair on them, I just don't especially like being with them.
I just feel helpless and I don't know what to do anymore.
4 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Umm...alright, this is "the norm", to an extent. Short answer to your question; yes! Clearly these are some very serious life burdening issues that should not be ignored or just put off "for later" in hopes that everything will just eventually get better on its own. I have similar experiences and issues like the ones that you have just explained, and just about everyone can relate in some way. One great thing that you are blessed with is your ability to recognize these things about yourself, and distinguish them as "not right" or "questionable". I am curios about your age and whether you have been diagnosed with any mental conditions and any prescriptions your taking already. Find someone who can help you get in the direction to finding the right therapist. There is nothing wrong with you, or any reasons you should have so much guilt and pain from all of this. No person chooses to feel the way you are feeling, and I know that you don't choose to be "this
way" or want to be. Please do not give up hope, fate always has a plan, always remember that. I have also dealt with "mental disorders" all my life: depression, bipolar, ADHD, sociable disorder, as well as the all the physical self harm your forced to resort to. After being forced to leave home after issues between my mother and I got physical, life went down hill and depression set in so badly I decided that I am not even a child worth having a home, a loser, and just not even worth living for anybody. So I slammed my car head on into a tree at 70mph and literally burned alive as it caught fire and stuck inside as other people were unable to do anything but listen to me screaming. I am stuck with the physical and mental scars of the choice I made that night. But I have never once lost hope in fate and could not be more happy being alive; now that I actually got the proper help after that day. I am sorry that I have made this so long, and I am sure you
think it is something you have already heard a million times... I just remember asking myself the same type of questions and just wondering why I was "this way" as you seem to be asking yourself. I never got help because going to the doctors and therapists was not "normal" to my family, and just lived with those issues to the point that suicide became my only relief. You say you aren't making an attempt to kill yourself, but the way it sounds, your down a path of misery and trying to get off. Your family is clearly a huge trigger, but not the cause, or the main focus. I care about you as I would anyone living a life of emotionally and mentally devastating issues. I wish that I could help you better. Sorry again this is so damn long, I would have just loved for someone to say something like this to me when I was struggling...
Source(s): Life - 8 years ago
Going to a psychologist will help you a lot!
Even if you think you don't have it "that bad", you won't lose anything from seeking help.
dont bottle up everything inside you
you obviously have bad communication with ur family so maybe opening up to a psychologist and letting everything out will help you..
Good luck
- 8 years ago
Sounds like the norm. Everyone has problems. Even psychologists and psychiatrists!
- 8 years ago
I honestly feel that everyone should see someone unless they are 100% safe and happy.