u/Dockboy240

My parents seem to lack any sympathy for my struggles.

Basically, I'm 18 years old now and for the past couple years I've been struggling with severe depression, anxiety, and an eating disorder, alongside adhd and autism that never got diagnosed until very recently.

Since they started noticing my issues, 98% of what they do is just telling me to fix myself, but they never offer any real help. I've tried talking with them about it, but unless the thing is directly related to my education they just wave it away like it's my fault that I can't just solve all my problems on a whim.

Any attempts to reason with them have led to exhausting arguments that never get us anywhere and we've repeated the exact same ones many times with no changes. I've since stopped arguing with them about it but it's just led them to push me around more.

I realize that I have problems and I'm trying really hard to fix them, but my parents, despite claiming to want the best for me, are always just criticizing me (often overly harshly) repeatedly without giving any real help, as if that will solve them. I mostly just wanted to rant but any advice would be helpful. I'm not currently in a position to move out so that's not really an option.

reddit.com
u/Dockboy240 — 2 days ago