stickypistil
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Does anyone else suffer from this? Ugh.
I just got off the phone with my mother. The situation kind of forced me to admit to her how I am doing. I hated it. Every single second of it was cringe-worthy to me.
I hate talking to my family about how I'm doing and my mental health, because to me my parents are pretty much perfect. They don't have the struggles I do. If they had struggles with something in the past, they've gotten over them. If they do have certain struggles now, they magically don't let them interfere with their life in any way. I have always felt woefully inadequate compared to my parents in life. I've always felt like a failure in their eyes.
In the course of my life I've known people who came from families where really bad stuff happened, families in which the parents were awful or absent, neglectful or abusive. I cannot imagine what they must have been like to deal with. I myself had many struggles growing up, but when it came to my family my struggles had nothing to do with abuse or neglect.
Does anybody else have parents or families that are so perfect? Whose upper middle class town and cars and jobs and lawn and house and whose appearance to the world, and Everything are just so frigging perfect?? They just seem to do everything right. While no matter what I do, how smart I am, or how good I happen to be at something, I still have problems that will always be with me, and I and still feel like the failure.
I just got off the phone with my mother. The situation kind of forced me to admit to her how I am doing. I hated it. Every single second of it was cringe-worthy to me.
I hate talking to my family about how I'm doing and my mental health, because to me my parents are pretty much perfect. They don't have the struggles I do. If they had struggles with something in the past, they've gotten over them. If they do have certain struggles now, they magically don't let them interfere with their life in any way. I have always felt woefully inadequate compared to my parents in life. I've always felt like a failure in their eyes.
In the course of my life I've known people who came from families where really bad stuff happened, families in which the parents were awful or absent, neglectful or abusive. I cannot imagine what they must have been like to deal with. I myself had many struggles growing up, but when it came to my family my struggles had nothing to do with abuse or neglect.
Does anybody else have parents or families that are so perfect? Whose upper middle class town and cars and jobs and lawn and house and whose appearance to the world, and Everything are just so frigging perfect?? They just seem to do everything right. While no matter what I do, how smart I am, or how good I happen to be at something, I still have problems that will always be with me, and I and still feel like the failure.
