Parent: yells at and threatens child over a mistake

Child: doesnt want to spend time with them afterwards

Parent:

Parent:*yells at and threatens child over a mistake*

Child:*doesn’t want to admit their mistakes and starts keeping secrets from their parent*

Parent:

parent: *yells at and threatens child over them self-harming*

child: *doesn’t talk to parents about their issues and feels worse*

parent:

Parent: *attributes all their child’s achievements to god and all the mistakes to the child*

Child: *actively avoids academic achievement and becomes an atheist*

Parent:

THAT LAST ONE IS WHY I STOPPED ATTENDING CHURCH AFTER I STARTED THERAPY.

Parent: *uses personal info,told to them in confidence as ammo to make child feel bad*

Child: *never tells the parents about how they feel or their personal insecurities*

Parent:

wow this tea is exceptionally tasty tonight thank you

Parent: *tells child they’re overreacting every time they speak up about poor mental health*

Child: *never tells parent what’s wrong until they break into a screaming match with parent*

Parent:

Parent: *immediately dismisses or laughs at child’s ideas about plans, future and clothes choices, without consideration even when asked for ideas.*

Child: *becomes indecisive or never gives ideas because they’ll just be dismissed regardless of how good they are. Answers every question with ‘I don’t mind/ care.*

Parent:

this is so fucking accurate

if my tumblr gets deleted you can also follow me on my other forms of social media:

- digging a grave and whispering my name to the worms

- finding a bear in the forest and challenging it to a game of chess

- launching yourself into the stratosphere and vividly hallucinating my content

- the helpless feeling in your chest when you think of death