Still struggling.

[KevinM1]

You're an idiot.  Please don't breed.

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It's been a few days since we've heard from you, GD.  I hope everything is alright.

Haha, just came back from a vacation in Carmel California. This kid just bitches and moans about his first world problems, it's getting old. He needs to get out and find out what life is really about if he can't handle a loving family. Time to see what happens when a 13 year old brat sees what the world has to say about his OCD if he doesn't love his family enough. The atheist community online will not do jack shit to help this kid out, besides corrupt his mind and turn him against his family, and when he leaves, he will realize his atheist friends don't have the resources to provide for him or his medication.

A loving family isn't one that:

1. Delays getting him treatment for a documented illness
2. Employs psychological abuse to sway him to believe what they believe

I have no doubt that they think that their actions are coming from a place of love, but what's that old saying?  "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Note, also, that no one here is saying that he should run away, disown his family, or anything else of that nature.  What we're pointing out to him is that they're acting selfishly, and not in his best interest.

Sometimes parents suck.  It happens.  I had a terrible father:

Physically abusive towards my oldest brother
Verbally/mentally abusive to the rest of us (he really liked to make us feel like we were worthless pieces of shit)
Used to kick holes in doors and walls to get his point across
Tried burning down the house - with us in it - when I was a toddler
Just got released from a 15 year stay in prison for molesting my cousin/godmother in the 1980s

I have absolutely no doubt that he love(d) us.  But he was a terrible parent and is a terrible human being.  Now, I'm not saying that GDs mom (or brother, for that matter) is anywhere close to being that kind of monster, but just that sometimes a person's intentions and their actions are at odds, and, ultimately, it's actions that count.