Sometimes parents need to sit down and reflect on their actions and how that affects their children.

Imagine growing up with a parent who doesn’t deal with stress very well. If they were constantly nagging you about things that weren’t really a big deal, would you do what they say to get them off your back, or would you argue with them until they got even more upset?

This girl shares how her mom’s mental health has been affecting her as well!

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AITA for telling my mum to go to therapy??

I’m 16F and my mum is 41 and she’s diagnosed with anxiety and OCD but she hasn’t done anything to help her cope with these things since her teenage years.

My dad and mum are divorced and share custody of me.

This is where it gets bad!

Anyway, my mum has been showing more and more amounts of stress everyday and she’s started taking it out on me which have resulted in a bunch of arguments that shouldn’t have happened.

I’ve told her to go to therapy multiple times over it but she refuses to listen.

Her moods switch up in seconds over nothing and we often get into arguments over it, and so I’ve grown to not be able to communicate properly with her and or just straight up feel tense being in the same room as her because I never know when she will suddenly switch up and start yelling at me over nothing.

UH OH…

Anyway, yesterday I made the mistake of doing an all nighter by accident.

I fell asleep around 3pm and woke up at 2am, which would mean I got 11hrs sleep. Because I had been awake since 2am I was pretty worn out by the time it was midday and so I decided to take a nap for an hour or so thinking it wasn’t a big deal.

About 2 hours into me sleeping I got woken up to my mum bursting into my room and screaming at me because ‘all I do is sleep and do nothing’.

She went on for a full 5 minutes just screaming at me at the top of her lungs because I don’t do anything to ‘help’ her.

That’s INSANE!

She left the room and then the argument continued over text where she yelled at me because I haven’t started this thing I’ve gotta do to get onto this course for college that’s due soon.

The thing I’ve gotta do is something I can get done in an afternoon and so I haven’t bothered starting it yet and I’ve told her multiple times not to worry about it but she ends up yelling at me over it anyway.

She then yelled at me for not doing some of my basic hygiene which I have struggled with for years because of an anxiety issue she refuses to take me to professional help for because according to her I’m completely fine.

That doesn’t sounds very healthy!

So in response I told her that this is an ongoing issue that is beyond her and that she needs to go to therapy for it.

She responded back with threatening to kick me out and send me to my dads.

She then proceeded to say she ‘doesn’t like living with so much stress’ and that she is trying her best as a parent and that she yells at me out of love because it’s my best intentions at heart.

She simply wants some peace!

I told her I don’t like living with it feeling like I have to walk on eggshells around her.

And then she told me to get my things and go to my dads.

Apparently my mum had been telling the whole conversation to my brother(21) who then messaged me saying ‘what is the matter with you’ and then told me he’s done helping me with stuff and that I was gonna ruin my future and end up working a crappy 9-5.

I tried to keep this brief 🙏 AITA??

YIKES! That sounds so exhausting!

It sounds like they both need help.

Let’s find out what people on Reddit think about this one.

This user knows that this kid is not at fault and the mother needs to work on herself for better parenting.

This user knows what the mom needs!

This user suggests moving to the dad’s place for sometime.

This user suggests taking it to the court and get some legal decision made on the situation.

This user knows how older people simply refuse to go to therapy!

They both need therapy.

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