RE: Still struggling.
February 16, 2016 at 6:06 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2016 at 6:08 am by Socratic Meth Head.)
(February 16, 2016 at 5:53 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm very sorry to hear about your dogs
Sounds like a good plan regarding your brother. I don't know if it would be possible to request you be not home schooled anymore because of the way they are treating you.
It's a loose loose, if I go back to public school then I am constantly in a situation of inescapable anxiety and doubt. I have always been very poorly focused and in an environment like public school I am no better off. With Homeschool, I am able to do it on my own time, and I have my own schedule, so if something happens (anxiety attacks or things of that nature) then I can just take a break, but at the same time I am going to be at odds with my parents 24/7 so they will be triggering doubt and anxiety. (You can see how much I have to shape my life around not getting anxiety just to live even just a little happy.) I'd much rather just eventually get the point across that I won't give in to means of religious conversion, and continue being homeschooled.
And whoever said "Positive OCD to the rescue!" Its a little more like "trying to focus on something 24/7 that doesn't give you anxiety!". I've heard of people who have learned to take advantage of OCD and cope with it to become a better person, but it seems very far fetched that OCD does anything other than harm to the abused.
