I'm so mentally tired right now. Physically too, but that's because of mental tiredness jdafh. I can't keep trying to keep everyone happy. I put on personas for my family, personas for my friends, i even have a persona (albeit less thick) for my boyfriend. I just can't keep doing this. I recently lost a friendship due to problems on both sides, and I wish I could have done things differently. I kept getting more and more agitated, and when I finally snapped I was rude and I said things I wish I could take back. I hate how the friend and I weren't that close. If it was a close friend, we would've known each other enough to resolve it. But because the person was just a friend, I don't know how to approach them. I don't want to just apologize and not have an apology as well, but I really don't know how to go about it.
And my family keeps trying to talk to me about issues I am not into or trying to be into. They won't let up and I'm getting so stressed out about it. They tell me I should get more interested in the politics of that country, but I just can't. My sister and mother get unhappy when I disagree with them, and so I stay on their side. I don't think I will be able to not talk to them but it's just draining. I also have to take their side for anything or they get mad. I almost came out to my sister, but I'm just too scared because while she won't hate me, she just can't fucking keep a secret.
My dad has been scarier than usual. I do say he usually pays no mind to anyone, but when he does, it's scary. He just does creepy things without warning. When I visited last, ages ago, I couldn't sleep. I went downstairs around 3 am, and he was just lingering in the bathroom area and followed me downstairs. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was wondering what I was doing, but not in a genuinely curious way. He was just asking like I was a 9 year old sneaking down to sneak a phone or candy.
And it wasn't just him being in the bathroom to use it, as I was awake for a while before going downstairs. The door didn't open, and he hadn't just come out of his room. He was just waiting in the bathroom in the dark, as there were no lights on when I went downstairs. It genuinely makes me uncomfortable as when I was younger and around me teens, he would invade my and my sister's privacy. He would look through my sketchbooks and probably would've done the same to our diaries if we didn't hide them well. He would get so angry if I confronted him on it. He would take pictures of me without my permission, probably to show off to his friends what a creative, clever, and perfect child he has, and he would get mad if I said just ask me next time. Some times I'm scared to say no.
I'm just scared around him now and it leaks into life. It doesn't help my mom and my sister now have a strained relationship. Because I'm seen as the one who's "closest" to him (I'm not, I'm just better at being civil) they constantly use me to go tell him stuff and be the middle man. When I confront them about it, they just don't listen. They say they're sorry, they'll try to be better, but it's done nothing. When I retaliate and just say no so that my sister has to do it, my sister gets so angry. I am not there just to be a cushion to their own problems, and they don't seem to realize that I have my own problems.
I've never been the perfect child. I don't pretend to be. But sometimes it feels like my mom is pushing that pressure onto me. I really want to just break ties and never speak to them again but it's not easy, and I do love them.
Ages ago I said I had self harming habits coming back up. They're gone now but I still want to off myself sometimes. I don't know how to help myself. I don't want to see a therapist, because that would mean asking my mom for help, and she has a history with my mental health. It just seems like the easiest option, doesn't it? I know it's not, but sometimes I have that hope and dream, even if it's a fucked hope and dream.
firstly, I'm sorry to hear you have so much on your plate, must be a lot of pressure for you.........I know it's easy for me to say it but I think that something I've learned is that we should live for ourselves since people are impossible to please anyway and it only makes us all miserable trying to make everyone happy.. take your time, but I do hope you manage to break free from these chains.. as for your friend, maybe a simple text would be enough, just expressing you are hurt but sorry....... I wish you luck <3