Let’s just say that there are some problems going on at home right now, and my mother is doing everything she possibly can to take it out on my brother and me. I have a few reports due on Tuesday, and my mother has somehow gained a sort-of dictatorial status around here, so she just so happens to know every single detail of my progress... but that isn't the point.

I wish I could be more articulate, but my mother is being a bitch. She won’t stop yelling, and, because I ‘disobeyed’ her by not writing a page of a report in 30 minutes, she’s threatening to disable the internet. In fact, if she saw me on here, she’d probably just unplug the computer. Thankfully, she’s in a different room right now, thus giving me the time to write this.

I mean, I know how trivial I’m making this sound, but it really isn’t so trivial from my perspective. Every time she walks near me I feel almost suffocated, because she can just snap at any minute. She’s fucking insane; she went to a psychologist once because she was convinced that everybody else in her family had problems. The psychologist ended up telling her that she displayed signs of manic-depressive disorder, so she stopped going (she won’t give an exact reason as to why she stopped, but I’m just putting two and two together).

Anyway, my mother is getting irrational and I need to know what to do. I can’t stand it any more. If she takes away the internet I’m fucked homework-wise, and, it being the last few weeks of school and all, that is not good (yes, I am aware that being on Totse is a tad ironic/hypocratic, but this is urgent). I can’t very well use force, but I can’t exactly just talk her out of ripping the cords right out of my computer either. I'm not a violent person at all, but I’ve even considered slapping her across the face, though I know that she’d blow it so far out of proportion that I’d probably be sent away for years.

Please, S&A, I don’t know what to do.... Somebody, help, please?

smoke bud

First off, if you are not doing something that you should be doing it, start.

Second, just ask her for a few minutes of time, talk nice and calm and slow and say "Is there something going on? I'm sort of getting the feeling you're a little stressed out because you seem upset...is there any way I can help you solve your problem?"

At the very least, if it doesn't get her to fix herself, it will put you in a different light then some dumb apathetic teen