So before I say anything, I am on the younger side, living with my parents, who were raised in very conservative and strict/judgmental households, don’t get me wrong, they are good parents, but when it comes to my mental health, it seems like all they want is for me to be fine. I show all the signs of depression and (diagnosed) anxiety, in the past I had a not so great counselor, who basically just let me rant about my problems, which led to me over exaggerating things and making me angry with my parents and myself, in the end my mom heard one of these rants and took me out of the counseling. That was very shaking to me, I’ve had friend problems, family problems, and school issues, (ADHD) and so now I’ve started to fall down into my darkest place I’ve been, and I’ve been told now and in the past whenever trying to explain my mental health and the effect my Maladaptive Daydreaming has on me my mother, who I try and talk to more than my dad, always says that ”it’s ok to just be fine name” or something along the lines that other people have it worse, or that she had it worse when she was younger, which completely invalidates me, making me feel even more miss understood in the moment and then I sink deeper into my disorders. Anybody else have said problems with parents? (My mom has nodded at her ideology that I am fine, just that I need to not let life get to me so much, so I can’t get diagnosed with anything by doctors)
Note: this was posted to another subreddit but I chose to post it here as well for more insight from others. As of now I am doing better though. 💙