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**Guest** · 12-29-2020, 04:30 PM

Hey I’m 12 years old turning 13 very soon and we came to Chicago to visit family and my cousins for Christmas it was going really good until my cousin kept hitting me bc I was just taking a picture of him and he almost broke my phone also my parents have been really mean and I’m here sitting down crying and I’m leaving tmr at 5 am I don’t know where I’m going to go because it’s a big city but I love them all so it’s a really hard choice to do this.

**Guest** · 12-30-2020, 10:04 AM

Hola, soy una chica española que realmente necesita ayuda. Tengo 15 años para 16, y hace aproximadamente dos años, me diagnosticaron anorexia nerviosa, y desde ahí todo ha ido cayendo en picado. Mi padre nunca a aceptado mi enfermedad y piensa que lo único que tengo son tonterías, por otra parte mi madre en momentos puntuales a llegado a ponerse en mi lugar e intentar ayudarme. Este año a estado todo lleno de violencia en mi casa, tanto física como psicológica.
En este curso, no me he centrado demasiado en los estudios y me han bajado las notas. A mis padres eso les ha molestado mucho, ya que estoy en un colegio privado que es bastante caro y piensan que estoy malgastando su dinero; pero siento que no se paran a pensar que ha tenido que suceder algo para que yo cambie tan radicalmente, tengo muchos problemas de autoestima y me da mucho miedo la soledad. Es cierto que cuando me enfado, tiendo a lanzar ataques que me he ido guardando a lo largo del tiempo (como forma de autodefensa, pero solo lo hago con mis padres)
Mi padre es bastante agresivo, y lo peor de todo es que termina utilizando su fuerza para marcar territorio. Uno de los últimos episodios más violentos fue hace cuestión de 1 mes, estábamos cenando, y todavía sigo teniendo problemas con la comida. Entonces no quería terminar de comer y me empezó a dar un ataque de ansiedad, por lo que mi padre respondió tirándome del pelo en varias ocasiones y echando a mi madre y hermana de la cocina para que no pudiesen ver nada de lo que me hacía. Acto seguido me retiró la comida, me volvió a coger del pelo, esta vez para arrastrarme y echarme a la calle. Al ver que yo me resistía, comenzó a propinarme patadas en diversas partes del cuerpo. Yo comencé a llorar y gritar más fuerte de lo normal, entonces mi madre bajó y me apartó de él. Las lesiones no fueron muy graves pero me dislocó el dedo pulgar de la mano derecha, tenía todo el costado magullado y lleno de moratones, al igual que las rodillas.
Hoy, 30 de diciembre no me a maltratado de manera física, esta vez ha sido psicológica. Me he despertado y me dolía mucho la cabeza y el vientre (ya que estoy con el periodo femenino), y él me ha dicho que me pusiese a estudiar ya que necesito levantar las notas. Yo no me encontraba bien, entonces he decidido ver un documental para no tener que estar memorizando y tal. Entonces mi padre a venido y me a empezado a decir que soy la vergüenza de la familia, que no sirvo para nada, que soy una mediocre que va a estar viviendo debajo de un puente porque no voy a tener mas recursos para vivir, que doy asco, que soy una supremacista, etc. Sus reproches me han hecho llorar, y de lo agobiada que estaba le he escrito un mensaje a mi psicóloga porque sentía que debería morir y que no tengo derecho a la vida.
Espero no molestar y gracias por absolutamente todo. Espero su respuesta y les deseo un feliz año nuevo.

**Guest** · 02-03-2021, 10:49 AM

Im frenchy im 12 very soon to 13 um my mom always tries to threaten me with beating me and threatening me by bringing my uncle over to her house to beat me ive got a beating last week because me and my sister where talking she said something sassy i said it back and she spit in my face . my mom treats my little brother and sister with love and never critizez them but with me she calls me fat even though im not im 10 pounds overweight people! My mom last month beat me with a metal broomstick last year she beat me with a cord and when i was 5 beat me with a spatula when i was 8 beat me with a hot spoon i kind of deserved it because i burnt my sister with a spoon i know i know but i was a kid expermenting . Im multi racial half african american half haitian but my dad isnt around so much i think thats why she takes it all out on me . she expects a 4.00 from me and when i got a 3.89 she said you should of done better even though I had a 89 in that class im so distracted by her i cant do my school work.
why dream is to make it to the nba and be a buissnes lawyer but she wants me to go to medical school when i was 10 i tried to hang myself with a belt but didnt go through with it my mom nevr supports me with what i want to do. just a hour ago she told me evry week i have a c she going to beat me on friday this isnt fair at all

**Guest** · 03-30-2021, 12:55 PM

I'm 15 and my mom used to hit me for lying or bad grades and she hit me today because i wasn't getting out of bed I don't know what to do and I've thought about running away to live with a friend can I legally do this without her bringing me home

**Guest** · 04-11-2021, 10:30 AM

Hello,

I’m a newly turned fourteen year old living in a hellhouse, considering running away again. When I was five, my Mum and Dad broke up as they just weren’t feeling the love in their relationship. After that day, Dad got all his stuff together and left, leaving my mother and I in heartache. As this was a time of grief, Mum turned her sadness into revolting anger and lashed out at me, causing a large scar across my right shin.
One time, when I was around ten, I was on my iPad -I wasn’t, and still not allowed, to have a phone- playing around, I accidentally smashed into a large wooden cabinet and sliced open my side on a glass-cased candle that had shattered on impact. Mum, not caring about my wound, yelled and slapped me for breaking the glass. She proceeded to make me clean it up, cutting my hands when lifing the small shards of glass.
Another time was when we went down to Exmouth, Australia, to camp for a few nights, by this time she had found a new English boyfriend. They constantly watched movies at full volume while I was trying to sleep. We had this large blow-up campertrailer and the rooms were all open to eachother, so they usually hang up this random white sheet to watch films on, not allowing me to go to the toilet or get something to drink/eat.
My Dad is never really help in these situations as I barely see him twice a month, not to mention I don’t tell him anything as I’m afraid he will hurt Mum.
I have two older brothers and an older half-sister that I love dearly, yet only one of these siblings, one of the brothers, live with us. He often fights with Mum, always bringing me into it in whatever way possible.
Most of the time, he shifts the blame from himself onto me, leading to more serious consequences and punishments.
Keep in mind my brother is 25.
I have run away previously, it leading to a beating upon returning. I went to my friends house and he offered to give me some food on my journey. At the time, we lived in a very rural area, the woods about two kilometres away from our house. Luckily I had meorized the entire town, so that night I spent my time in the woods. I stayed at the edge of the forest, occasionally looking for herbs, as I am an aspiring witch. I had started a small fire, which we learned at an incursion. I have also memorized many herbs and have multiple bottles in my room filled with all different, medical herbs.
I decided to return home after about twelve hours in the woods, which led to a lecture, beating, my iPad and bottles, containing my herbs, thrown at me.
I suffer from severe bipolar disorder, ADHD, slight tourettes, depression and social anxienty. Whenever I bring up the subjects of my mental illnesses, my mother hrushes them off as a lie and yells at me. I have spoke to her once about her yelling and harming me and she responded with ‘I have never yelled or hit you’ whilst yelling.
Since then, we have moved into a very packed area, I have new friends, multiple willing to take me in. I used to always say to myself, ‘Wait until you’re eighteen, you won’t get chased down, then.’ But I am unsure as to whether I will make it to eighteen or not.

Please, I need advice.

**Guest** · 04-23-2021, 07:56 AM

I wanna run away. I cant be here my mom goes through all of my stuff and i feel like i constantly have to be little miss perfect for her even when im not making mistakes i feel like i have to watch my back and make another fight doesn't occur in the house especially around my brother. I feel trapped. We just got into a fight last night because she found a vape in my room that i told my friend id hold for her ive only used it once but she doesn't believe me. She always assumes the worst. She ended up going through my room, my phone, and my car looking for any other mistakes i might have made and wouldn't even let me talk to her and told me to go away. I've always wanted my mothers approval but even with grades i can barely seem to get it. Last time we had a fight similar to this she tried to put me in a mental institution and im scared she is going to do it this time too. She can be completely bipolar with everything. I know i suck at getting my thoughts together on a post and i am sincerely sorry if it leaves holes but i cannot do the back and forth with her. My boyfriend is worried out of his mind right now because i texted him what was going on and told him to not text me back for a couple days because i didn't want him to get in trouble. I have apologized numerous times to her for even having it and i dont know what to do. Ive been thinking about running away for years but every time I wanna walk out the door i dont wanna leave my brother. I dont wanna leave him but i dont know if i can put up with her any longer. Shes controlling and manipulative and back and forth. One day she is fine and can be nice and the next she is irritable and rude and mocking and judgmental. I dont think she realizes it. I love her and i know she would do anything for me but I need her to realize that some choices are mine and she cannot control everything i do or live through me. I probably sound like a horrible daughter for saying that but i cant keep doing this with her but again i cant leave my baby brother. I am 17 fixing to be 18 in a week and a half and my brother is 9. Its not like i can go to my dads he hasnt been around since i was 10. My mom scares me sometimes if she found this shed make my life a living hell. Anytime i try to talk to her about it she always says fine ill be the bad guy or i guess im a bad mother or dont compare me to your father or im the one that stayed. Im just exhausted and i know its draining me. Ive never had bad grades or even struggled in school until the last couple years and thats partially because of my moms and step dads divorce but this years are worse than when that was going on and i know its because i dont feel comfortable in the environment im living in i always feel on edge.

**Guest** · 04-25-2021, 12:00 AM

i’m kinda in the same situation as you. i’m currently 16, turning 17 in a few months, and i can’t stand living in my house anymore. my dad was an alcoholic when i was younger and would emotionally, verbally, and physically abuse me, my brother, and my mom. he’s cheated on my mom multiple times, is never home, and is very controlling. i’m not allowed to talk to anyone on the phone without him assuming it’s a boy and getting mad. he doesn’t let me out either so i’ve become unsocial and also have severe anxiety. i also had an eating disorder for 2-3 years because of my dad. ever since i was a little girl, he would make remarks about my weight, calling me a pig, and asking how i could eat so much. because he said it so often, i became paranoid and started starving myself. by this time, my mom and dad had my two other younger brothers. they spoiled them so much and since i was the age of 9, i was the one taking care of them. my dad isn’t home much and my mom works so she can pay the bills and i’m the only option to take care of the kids. i didn’t realize being in elementary and taking care of literal babies was weird until i grew up but it’s been stressful and a big weight on my shoulders ever since. they’ve become brats because of the way my parents raised them and don’t listen to me. and i love my mom but she doesn’t stick up for me when my dad does something and doesn’t care much about my mental illnesses, she just thinks i’m “crazy”. my dad doesn’t even believe in anxiety being a thing so he doesn’t even know i was diagnosed with such a thing. i just feel like no one in my house supports me, i’ve been depressed and anxious in this house which is supposed to be a home but feels more like a prison. i’m not sure if i want to runaway since i know the laws in my state but i’ve already tried talking to counselors/hotlines about such things and don’t get much help. i’m kinda just ranting here since i have no one else to go to and don’t know what to do at this point. sorry for all of this and for any typos haha.

**Guest** · 05-12-2021, 11:06 AM

Hi, I am 15 years old, I went through a lot of stress when I was younger, I was neglected by my birth mom, and I was with her for 6 years and she hardly ever took care of me. So, after that, I went to foster care for like a year. and stuff wasn't good either. Then, this mom adopted me and things go so bad with her, and then my sister, they both cause me daily stress, and my sister is really annoying like I can't put up with her anymore and it makes me just want to leave the house. Then back to my current mom. she doesn't really listen to me when I talk to her, and she causes me a lot of stress, too and it gets annoying how most of the time she barely lets me talk and explain. So if I thought about running away, but I know where I can go, I have a friend, and his mom I don't think minds if I stay there so if I run to there will I get in trouble or will the police find out and if they do how will they know or find me?

**Guest** · 10-20-2021, 06:27 PM

Im done with life in this home. me and my sisters have been hurt both physically and mentaly more than anyone ever should. My dad is the worst person ever. He calls himself christian but he hits us and insults us. When we do something wrong he takes a wooden stick and hits us with it, and justifys it with the bible. and its takes everything i have to be strong, because my sisters need be to be strong. but im done. im done getting beat, im done seeing my sweet mom get insulted and abused by a horrible man. im done seeing my sisters suffer. i cant take it anymore. i cant go anywhere. i cant talk to friends. im scared every day of what my dad will do when he comes home. im scared of what he will do if i leave the house. i dont know where to go if i do leave and i dont where id live. i have a job since i am 16, but i dont make nearly enough to make it on my own. my mom and the rest of us have thought about leaving together, but we cant take care of a family of 5. my mom is undocumented, and even if she wasnt, she has 4 kids to take care of. and there is no plan in sight. so i want to leave on my own, but dont know where to go or my dad can make me come back. if i refuse, can my dad still make me? please help

**Guest** · 01-15-2022, 05:33 PM

im 13 and im thinking of making my friend come and get me out of my house because my dad is being very scary and weird right now cause he is very high what should i do

**Guest** · 03-02-2022, 03:26 PM

My father keeps yelling at me but not constantly so I don't know if he's just annoyed with me or he truly hates me

**Guest** · 04-08-2022, 02:31 PM

Hi I’m Vari (nickname) and I’m 13 years old and I feel like running away from my parents house because I feel like they don’t love me in a type of way, My mother is very mind controlling and nice at times but every time if I do something wrong or show her something she turns it to a lecture. But that isn’t it. There’s so much I have to tell, when I was 8-10 years old I had a really weird addiction to watching adult stuff (gay pornography) but I was young and I didn’t know that much about how bad it was.. but I remember my mother took me to a bridge one day and she told me to jump off and kill myself because she thought I had adhd which I do have but my parents don’t know cause I don’t tell my parents about my mental state such as depression anxiety and that’s all. (But I have a step dad and a mom) plus this morning my mother hit me and gave me a bruise on my hand because she thought I was whipping my snot on the wall But it was actually paint when. The a worker painted my wall blue I always feel like running away to my grandmas house because I feel like I can talk to her all the time and I feel comfortable being with her more than my mom. But my mom and grandma don’t really have contact with each other because of my step dad but that’s a different story… I still feel like ending myself one day in a bathtub basically drowning myself I felt like doing it today but if my parents yell at me I will. I have a younger sister she’s 8 so i love her so much to leave her but I don’t know I tell some of my feelings to Uncle (he’s one year older than me) because he understands me. I don’t want to kill myself but I do. The reason why I don’t want to because I don’t want to leave those who love me.. I just don’t know school ends in 6 minutes for me I can’t take it no more. But my parents love me sometimes and my parents ask me why I don’t talk to them a lot because I’m afraid of being judge by my mom mostly my step dad is kinda nice my mom is nice but she judges me and she’s mind controlling. I hate it. But if you could reach out to this number 612-751-8050 that would mean so much to me or just reply here that’s alright but wish me luck! I’ll make it in life I hope.

**Guest** · 04-20-2022, 08:33 PM

Hello I'm 11 and my mom thinks I'm being fast when I tell her I'm not and I have 3 younger brothers and she treats them better than me and my grades aren't the best but I try and she don't appreciate it and she say that I'm a bad daughter and that she wish that she never had me she beats on me and she say that she gone kill me and do other things to me and everything I tried to call the cops she would say that she gonna beat me in front of the cops and she won't let me get in contact with my dad I had to go behind her back and talk to him and he said that I can come with him cuz I don't feel safe with my mom and I try my best to make her happy but to me it just feel like she don't want it so if you just pls help me or make some Arrangements to where I can go with my father that would be great but at the moment I keep she use thing to where it would Suffocate me and to where I can't breathe and she pulls my hair she yells at me and I have multiple bruises by her and her mom pls just help me if you want my dad number to talk to him so he can come get me that would me great

**Guest** · 04-23-2022, 01:13 PM

Hello I'm 11 and my mom thinks I'm being fast when I tell her I'm not and I have a younger brother and she treats him better than me. I am one of the smartest people in my class and i try to be bigger and she don't appreciate it and she say that I'm a bad daughter and that she wish that she never had me she beats on me with hangers,belts, and sometimes a scrubber to make it hurt really bad.she say that she gone kill me and do other things to me and everything I tried to run away numerous times and she would say that she gonna beat me and break my arms and legs and she won't let me get in live with my my dad because she wants to move to georgia and I I don't feel safe with my mom and I try my best to make her happy but to me it just feel like she don't want it so if you just pls help me or make some Arrangements to where I can go with my father that would be great and I have multiple bruises by her

**Guest** · 05-25-2022, 05:18 PM

Hi there,
I'm only 11 years old and I'm thinking about running away as well. I know this might sound like a bad reason to run away, but in real life it hurts so much more.
my mom and dad both force me to do things I hate doing. Like play tennis even though I hate it. And they also tell me about how they want me to join the tennis team when i'm in collage to save them money. They don't even care about what I feel, it's only important that they are ok. And i can't even remember a week where i haven't cried at least once in a few years. They always tell me to express my feeling to them but when I do they always get mad and continue forcing me to do things I hate. And with grades I bring home a 3.5 which is almost perfect and they tell me to get a higher grade and try my best, even though they don't even ask if I did. I'm constantly stressed and they don't care. What should I do?

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