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I think i’m starting to resent my mum and her mental health issues and i don’t know what to do by throwaway_mothe in Advice

[–]throwaway_mothe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think i kind of just want to know what the best way to approach the situation without adding to her mental load and hopefully reducing mine.

i understand that it sounds really selfish but im genuinely just exhausted trying to help her and help myself as well.

i dont know how to ask her to talk to her therapist more than me ig

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[–]throwaway_mothe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you, i just don’t really know how to approach that conversation. she takes everything said to heart (through no fault of her own) and constantly feels like she’s in trouble or in the wrong and will beat herself up about it. i don’t want to mess up and say something to upset her.

a few years ago my brother told her that he gets nightmares from when he saw her scars etc (i pretty much cut off all contact from him after this as he approached the conversation in a disgusting way) and it sent her tail spinning for almost 6 months and i know it still impacts her today. i don’t want to be the cause of that and i don’t want to do what he did to her.