I’m 18 years old and I feel trapped in my life. Every single day since I can remember, I’ve woken up miserable and hating myself. It started when I was 4 years old and my parents got divorced. My dad got married a few months later and I lost almost all contact with him aside from our three hour visits each month, which are forced and I dread going to. I grew up living in an apartment complex and my family was in a horrible financial situation. My mom would yell and complain and take out her depression on me and my siblings every day of every year. She and […]
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Lack of self-esteem
I am finding myself obsessed with obtaining reassurance from other people that I am worth it, and that I am worth more alive than dead. Â I can’t seem to function on my own. I always look to another person for my own confidence… usually a friend, or someone I newly met. Of course the ironic thing is that I can’t gain confidence from other people, and I know that already. Also terrible, is that I usually latch onto someone else when I am at my weakest. What generally happens is that they panic and back away because I latch on too tightly. I don’t know […]