Grrawrr = Grr and Rawrr together by the way.
Seriously my mom is putting way too much fucking pressure on me lately. I swear everyday she restricts a new area of my life. Some things she has a right to - like how much money she gives me, or whether I get my own place or not (although it is still horribly annoying when she promises it, then CHANGES HER MIND AT THE LAST DAMN SECOND... if you're not gonna do it at all, don't say you will!! It's not that hard. I swear she enjoys watching me get my hopes up so she can smash them!). But other things she has NO right to, like what room I hang out in the most, or how I feel, or when I'm allowed to go through withdrawals/go to detox, or what I feel and when I'm allowed to feel it.
For instance, last night. My mom was on the biggest, most fucked up power trip I have EVER seen her on. I wanted to go to detox last night, but my mom wanted me to get evaluated by some random place first because some random nurse suggested it. Of course the fact that the detox center I want to go to will evaluate me once I get there fell on deaf ears. I've been trying to get into a facility for two weeks now. My mom has been saying for this past week - AGREEING WITH ME - that if I didn't hear anything back by yesterday, she would take me to the detox center herself! Well, last night it was finally approved and I was ready to go, when all of the sudden, she changes her mind and decides I need to get evaluated by this other place first! Which would be fine, except that I can't see them until next week. I tried explaining to her a million times why this wasn't the best idea, that I needed to go to detox as soon as possible, that the facility would do an evaluation themselves, etc. But no, she was on a power trip... a huge, unreasonable one, at that... and so it was her way or the highway. Literally. I could either wait a week to go be evaluated, or I could find somewhere else to live. And when I suggested just doing it at home, on my own, since I would start kicking before I had the chance to go be evaluated anyway? HAH. Forget about it. Her response? "That is not an option. You do that, and you're outta here." WTF so now I can't even quit drugs when I want to quit them?! And to add insult to injury, she THREW money in my face and told me to take it and do what I needed to do in order to stay well until I could go get evaluated by this place.
Yeah. My own mother literally made me choose between taking heroin for another week, or living on the streets. Lovely, eh? And the sad part... this is all real. It actually happened. I almost don't believe it myself.
So that was yesterday. And then today, I was informed that once I get back from detox, I no longer have a place to live. Wanna know why? It's because my mom thinks I spend too much time in the garage... which happens to be the only place in the house that I'm allowed to smoke. That is where people are allowed to smoke. I smoke. Therefore, I am in the garage throughout the day. And when I told her, "Whoa... you couldn't have said this bothers you earlier and asked me to go outside when I want to smoke? You're just jumping straight to kicking me out over something that doesn't even affect your life in any way? Don't you think you're jumping the gun? That seems really unfair." Even my dad agreed that it was fucked up (apparantly she didn't bother to run this by him, it was the first he heard about it too.) At that point I was told, "Tell me that something I do is unfair again, and you'll be outta here long before then."
So. It appears as though I can't do anything right, not even feel. The smallest tiniest little fraction of a thing I do, say, or feel... if it annoys my mother or rubs her in the wrong way even the SLIGHTEST bit... and I'm punished severely for it. As in, not having a roof over my head anymore. She does this often, by the way. Not the rest of it, but the whole thing where I'm not allowed to have emotions unless they suit her. It's gotten to the point where I'm straight up afraid of my mother - of saying anything in front of her, of coming to her with my problems... and forget about even trying to sit down and have a mature, adult conversation about how some of the things she does and says really hurt.
This really scares me, because the reason I got into drugs in the first place was because I was trying to bottle up my emotions. Now that I have some counselling under my belt, plan to get more, and am ready to start dealing with my emotions like an adult... I'm being forced to bottle them up again. God forbid I express even the TINIEST bit of anger or sadness. I've been forced to find a couch to crash out on many a night for committing the heinous crime of being human.
The fucked up thing is, is that whenever I try to make her understand that she's punishing me for having emotions, she says, "Oh, and you don't do that to ME? You jump all over me when I express how I feel all the time." Except that what she's talking about, and what I'm talking about, are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FUCKING THINGS. Yes, I do get mad at her for certain things she says and maybe I do raise my voice a bit at times. But I never attack her, never insult her. I just disagree, and it rubs me the wrong way, and so I react to that by raising my voice or having a sharper tone. However... not everyone is going to agree with everything you say. Sometimes, you are going to say things that rub another person the wrong way, and they are going to react to how you made them feel, either in their mannerisms or in their tone of voice. THAT IS LIFE. On top of that, whenever I DO do this, she quickly shuts me up with another threat of some sort - either kicking me out, or cutting off my cell phone, or whatever. Me raising my voice is not a "punishment". She, on the other hand, actually does punish/threaten me for showing any type of emotion or feeling, especially if it's in dissent with her own. There is a very large difference between raising your voice at someone, and literally punishing them with something that has the potential to seriously fuck up their life. Like, oh I don't know... forcing them to go live on the streets? How the hell can you even compare raising your voice to something like that?!
On top of having to bottle up my everyday emotions, I have to bottle up all this anger and resentment I have towards my mother. I would love nothing more than to have a good relationship with her and work out our issues. But that will never happen. Because in order for there to even be a CHANCE at that happening, it would require us to air our issues we have with each other. And I am not allowed to do that. Which means that when it comes to my mother, I am constantly just one huge fucking hot mess of confusion, resentment, anger, sadness, longing, depression, rage, fear, betrayal... you name it.
AND IT WILL NEVER GET BETTER.
Jesus fuck. And she's gotten A LOT worse lately. A LOT worse. Like, it's happening every single day now, it's always far more intense, and sometimes it even happens more than once a day. Why can't I ever catch a break... I feel like my life is always one huge battle after another, and it is. Just ONE TIME... in my whole fucking life... I just want there to be a period of peace. Where everything is okay, and there's not something lurking over my shoulder, stressing me the fuck out.
I'm just frightened, really, at the end of the day. I worry a lot about how and if I'll be able to stay sober. My emotions are quite literally my kryptonite. And if I have all these negative emotions that I can't express, that I have to bottle up, that are bound to one day explode... all while dealing with all this pressure from my mother, and her refusing to give me even a tiny bit of the independence that I DESERVE as a 24-year-old woman, and with my financial issues, and my problems with school, among other things... well fuck. I just have to wonder, is there any hope for me at all? I worry that there isn't.