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    Keddy's Avatar The Awkward Conversationalist
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    Enough Already! HELP!

    So I decided I couldn't stand to live on campus at college anymore.
    I'm sick of being teased and bullied, and I'm sick of having anxiety that I can't find proper coping skills for. And I need to get away from alcohol.
    I'm going to drive to school every day and continue to take classes, but I dropped a business class because my anxiety is getting the better of me and I can't deal with all the presentations and written work. Plus I do have a full-time job on my plate as well.
    I moved home today. I called my mom first and told her, and she told me she was "extremely disappointed" that I'd make "such a dumb decision."
    Well, I was clearly upset but I acted reasonable. I started to unpack my stuff and she refused to help me. My father threw a sh*t-fit about me dropping the business class and told me I was immature and irresponsible.
    My brother laughed his slimy little high school student [BEEP] off at me throughout our entire dinner, and my parents gave me the silent treatment but did nothing to address his behavior. He's always been the favored one anyway, and my parents only seem to be proud of me when I'm pursuing something THEY want me to be pursuing. I really don't have any interest in business management. I want to be a film director or a professional dancer. They like my brother because he wants to do something boring with his life.
    But my parents are so goshdarn Catholic and old-fashioned that any sort of career in the arts is a joke to them. They want me "where the money is."
    This is so unfair. I have to get up at 8AM for work tomorrow and I don't think I'm going to come home after. I think I'm going to pay whatever I can manage to stay in a hotel for the weekend and then try going home after school on Monday. I already withdrew from housing so I can't go back to my dorm. I'm pretty sure my roommate let his girlfriend take over my side of the room anyway.
    What do I do now?!
    /Keddy
    "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

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    Sounds like a difficult situation, hugs, do your parents know the reasons you moved home, are they aware of your anxiety? Could you move somewhere else, like rent somewhere? I hope things ease up for you soon.
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    My parents are aware of my anxiety but they tend to see it as more of an excuse than a diagnosis... I can't afford to rent anywhere so for now I'm just going to have to put up with being home :/
    "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

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    hugzzzzzz

    Keddy, I think you should do what YOU wanna do. I hope things go well for ya. Stay determined in the stuff ya wanna do and you'll make it there.
    Think better of yerself too, SA and anxiety is overcome when you feel like "I got this!".

    All the best for ya.

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    Keddy's Avatar The Awkward Conversationalist
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    Thanks, guys.
    Things seem to be getting slightly better with my folks. For now I'm just trying to relax and get used to living at home again.
    Ugh, life. :/
    "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

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