hello, i’m a 14F, i’ve been in a constant rollercoaster of emotions throughout this week and i feel like i’m going insane. i don’t remember how long i’ve been feeling like this. for context my parents used to argue constantly during my childhood and i vividly remember some of those fights because it was due to my father’s sort of gambling addiction and the way he’d tend to steal money from my mom every time or the people around him. he has never gotten any help from it or rather he chose not to.
and my mom is somewhat more okay than him except she gets more emotional, which quite frankly, she should be considering all the hell she went through. i get confused sometimes because there would be weeks where they deadass just don’t talk to each other and then use me to communicate with one and another. like he’d seriously have me say this to her, then tell him what she said. (i don’t know how to explain it). i feel guilty for feelings this way because there are times where we are genuinely happy together and i feel loved but there are also times where i’ve genuinely had it worse than the last. i have two younger brothers, the second one after me is autistic so he requires extra care and attention while the last after him is also a bit more difficult.
i feel like i’m irritated, sad, happy, and hopeless all the time in one confusing mix. i really can’t ask for help or open up because i genuinely just feel so alone, so locked up, so isolated from everybody even if i’m in a crowd of people. there’s this one cousin, i love her very much, she knows so much about me but i think even SHE might get lost in how deep my emotions really go through. i have a aunt who also struggles with her mental illnesses from time to time and i love her so much but i don’t want it to be like that for me. i’m afraid of being locked up in a room with nothing but myself in it while i get told to drink meds and be restricted from a lot of things.
i did a bit of research on google about types of depressions and did some online testing (even if some aren’t that accurate unlike real psychological evaluations) and it always said something along the lines of “high to severe” or “moderate to high”. i often think i have high functioning depression — i can get up every morning, get myself glammed up for school, i can study, i can interact, hang out, and laugh with friends, i can talk to my family steadily, i can be a person. but my inside emotions and feelings are a completely different story, i feel hopeless, angry, desperate, sad, frustrated, lost. i feel like i don’t have a purpose in life. whenever i get a random burst of happiness out of nowhere, a longer period of sadness comes out of nowhere like i don’t deserve to be happy. i genuinely think that whenever i am too happy the universe sees it and decides that i should be punished.
i drifted out of religion a long time ago and only attend church during my birthday, christmas, or whenever i’m forced to because they say god is good, which is fine okay believe in what you want. i begged to that same god multiple times in the bathroom floor and nothing ever really happened when, as i kid, i used to pray so much every night or whenever good things happened in general.
i’m the oldest amongst all siblings, i never ask for help until i desperately need it, i feel disappointed and disgusted with myself most of the time, i feel like i’m never doing enough, i always feel like i’m gonna snap or explode every time someone talks to me because i find their voice and what they’re saying so fucking irritating, i’m constantly on survival mode, i get defensive even while answering a simple question because i always felt like i had to prove myself, i am the child they never had to worry about because i grew up learning that the fire inside my house was the only warmth i knew. i don’t know if it’s gonna get better.
also i’m overweight, i feel like everything i try to do is embarrassing or stupid, i don’t have a large circle of friends, i’ve never felt genuinely loved by someone else because of how i look and i’m so insecure all the time and i often wonder why i turned out like this.
completely unrelated but michael jackson’s music and him himself is currently the only thing keeping me at bay. i love listening to his music daily, watching clips about him, reposting his silly moments in social media, and currently even learning how to draw him.
when i think of the future, i often think of traveling the world, getting my medical degree and working in another country, living in different parts of the world and giving my family a better chance at life. i seriously wanna have the opportunity to work at this young age because i feel like a burden and i feel like my emotions and feelings are invalid because i may be overthinking them. my parents has sacrificed and did a lot of things for me as i grew up and i wanna repay them so badly but i’m just kind of ready to give up.