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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/ThrowawayNightWeMet on 2023-08-28 16:19:44.
This is gonna be a long road.
My beloved father died when I was twelve. It was just the three of us, as my half-sisters are much older than me and they were out of the house before I was even born. My relationship with my half-sisters has always been strained, never fully turning into a bond. We are no longer in contact.
My narcissistic mother thought it would be good to interrupt my studies after my father’s death, and so at the tender age of twelve I stopped going to school. Consequently, my friends moved on with their lives.
These problems had taken their toll on my mental and physical health, and I developed anorexia because I wasn’t eating anything at all. She never took me to a doctor despite the fact that I was dying right before her eyes. She’s just a selfish, dismissive person.
I went to the doctor, got diagnosed with depression and decided to go to therapy. What’d she do, be a good mother? No. She said I shouldn’t take antidepressants and shouldn’t go to therapy. So I did just that.
I went into a downward spiral. Meanwhile, she went to the best hospital in the country to treat pneumonia. Since she’s uninsured by choice, I had to pay the hospital bills, losing a huge amount of my father’s inheritance money.
She didn’t have the bravery to own her actions, allowing me to be punished in a way that was unfair. I can’t stand it any longer.
How do I get closure?