Rant.

[Karen]

You mom sounds like she is dealing with Depression. Has she talked to any medical professionals about this? Or a counselor? Much of her behavior is textbook Depression. Is there a pastor or some other adult she respects you could talk to about getting her some help? This is not your fault, kiddo. Thanks for hanging in there, but she sounds like she needs professional help, not just a daughter and animals to vent on.

The flat tire and no gas are minor problems, one can put air in the tire and gas in the tank.

[Roxyluvsme13]

You mom sounds like she is dealing with Depression. Has she talked to any medical professionals about this? Or a counselor? Much of her behavior is textbook Depression. Is there a pastor or some other adult she respects you could talk to about getting her some help? This is not your fault, kiddo. Thanks for hanging in there, but she sounds like she needs professional help, not just a daughter and animals to vent on.

The flat tire and no gas are minor problems, one can put air in the tire and gas in the tank.

She hasn't, because she refuses to go to the doctor for anything. Well, that and she hasn't found a doctor since we've moved either. She had a really awesome one before we moved when she got diagnosed with diabetes and all of that. But now she won't go to one again, because she doesn't have one and complains about how we can't afford it, etc. (The one we had before was free, so I guess that's how we got her to go eventually). I tell her she needs to call her friends and talk to them or that we'd go out and do things, but she just won't... I guess depression could explain some of the stuff going on though. I just wish there was more I could or that I could actually get her to do something about it.

And yeah. But she's been giving her extra money to me to keep gas in my car so I can get back and forth to school every day. So she hasn't had money to get the hole in her tire patched or to put gas in her own car. :/

I feel really bad for getting angry over everything, but she's stressing me out and making me feel bad and taking everything out on me.


ETA: And I know she's stressed out/worried over money a good portion of the time, but that's what baffles me about why she won't try to get a job.