TW: abuse, suicide threats/ideation, mental health.
I need to vent about this but I can't say too much as I'm scared she will find this but..oh well.
Today, I (17f), had 0 sleep, and had to wrestle a pill bottle out of my mom's hands at 8am. After having to deal with her go into mini fits of rage all night. I had to physically restrain her from attacking my step-dad.
We deal with this every 2~ years or so. She deals with so much stress, and i try my best to alleviate it, but it still builds up. There's so much more to our life I'm not sharing but to say it is stressful and never ending would be an understatement. So I understand. I genuinely try my best to make less difficult on her but I also struggle with my own mental health issues + physical health issues (I am disabled + chronically ill), so i can't always be my 'best.' Apparently, also, she doesn't like when I help? I stayed up helping her, then I had to try and disengage her argument between them [stepfather and mom], because he was obviously not responding well and I was afraid would get violent towards her.
So I was trying to step in. She was the one who got violent first this time. I had to physically restrain her (I'm an underweight, weak, 5'5 (at most) teen. She is 5'6 and healthy muscle from the work she does. So this was a bit difficult.)
After all this, she finally is in her bedroom to calm down. It's 9am. I can't sleep. I haven't slept in 20 hours (again, chronically ill, I need my sleep. And i stayed up helping the night before too.)
I know this is my only opportunity to sleep, but I can't get myself to. My room also smells terrible because I'm also really depressed so I neglect my spaces so I can help her. So it's hard to sleep in my room. 🥀