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I have been having a rough time lately. Probably my fault more than anyone else's. I don't feel like a good person and most of the time nothing seems fun or enjoyable at all. Most of the time I kinda just go from very angry to sad to just unconcerned with anything and I can't put others through deal...

Lately I have just been pushing everyone away. The ones I care about I feel like I need to protect them from me and the rest of the people I really couldn't care less about and don't want then near me anyways. I usually only speak to any family I have left maybe once or twice a year and apparently m...

I moved out a short while after the funeral. I had a few roommates for a couple years and a few girlfriends but I started to distance myself away from other people more and more. I had always been independent even as a child (cooked my own meals at a young age and got myself to school and around tow...

My mom wasn't a bad person per say. She just had a hard life and turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with it. She would get messed up to avoid dealing with pain and getting messed up would lead to more pain that she needed to avoid. After she left us and we moved in with our grandparents we lost tou...

It isn't all bad. I am 27 now and me and my siblings moved in with our grandparents when I turned 14(my sister a few years before me and my brother). My grandparents have always been the most wonderful people in our lives and saved us from a much darker life in many ways. They took my mom to court a...

Shortly after my Dad took his own life my Mom got married to Dan and we all moved in. Mom started to do hard drugs along with all her drinking and Dan was even worse. While Mom was just neglectful and would not show up at home for days at a time, Dan would get drunk and scream, spit, and hit. All of...

Just kinda gonna write what comes to mind when it does. When I was a young kid, my mother and father where having some problems. She was a drunk and was cheating on him with her dealer named Dan. When I was 4 my father tried to get her to come home from a bar to be with her family But failed. The ba...

Good luck apple, it is nice to see others going in the right direction.

Hello everyone and thank you to anyone that takes the time to read my post. I am new to this type of thing so I will probably fumble quite a bit. Anyways, I have always had kind of a messed up life but only in the last few years(I am 27 year old guy) have I really felt like I am being affected by it...