(February 16, 2016 at 5:33 am)robvalue Wrote: I think Ignor was being serious, and I have to say, it's an option worth considering. It's really sad that your family show you so little respect.
It seems like the short term plan is to get through the next few years however you can until you can move away. Pretending and going through the motions just to get some peace is, I believe, a viable option. Anyone can say they're a Christian. Only you can know whether they would buy it, though.
They're being so ridiculously harsh that your other options are seeming limited. I'm thinking:
"The more you push me around and disrespect my rights to believe what I want while I'm under your roof, the less contact I'll have with you once I move out."
My parents did something very similar, although not regarding religion. They blew it, they treated me like crap while I was "at their mercy" and now I barely talk to them.
The other possibility is to seek advice from your school or anywhere else impartial you can get to. Certainly your mother blocking your appointments is grounds for you to receive support, and maybe you can add to that being hounded all the time just for not sharing their beliefs. Or even contacting a helpline for abused children.
I'm really sorry you have to go through this. Religion is poison to the mind and your family has let it rot their most basic values in taking care of you.
One more extreme idea: "If you don't stop hassling me, I'm going to become a Muslim."
I'm homeschooled, I would have to walk across town to get to my therapist since I can't drive. I think I'll just tell them that all they are doing by bothering me is making me resent them more than I already do now. My parents always fight, my brother is set on turning me christian, recently one of my dogs was attacked and is on an IV with tubes in him because he can't sustain himself otherwise, we had to get rid of our new dog, Sophie, because she likely was causing the uproar among our dogs, and now OCD intrudes on me mentally and i can't get any relief or escape from anxiety or doubt. I just want peace, for anything. Whether its truly believing ANYTHING I say, or whether I just want a calmer life. I can't have any of it. I;ve literally doubted things that I was 100% certain about and In the end, I was right and the doubt was wrong. I can never get peace though. I guess I'll put up with it and try my best to get my other brother from another mother (and that's accurate) to take me to my therapist since my mom wont.
