My best friend is in an emotionally and mentally abusive household. She’s under so much stress from her school that her parents told her if she needed to quit school for now she could, but she’d have to get a job. Her parents have kept her from learning how to drive (and thus, getting a car), or do most things for herself.
Here she is, at 19, bordering on contemplating suicide because of her family and the stress they’ve been putting her under the past few weeks because she’s been asking for just straight emotional help. Where she lives, she can’t apply for government assistance at all without her parents knowing, and they are trying to stiff-arm her into staying in school, despite visibly seeing what it’s doing to her health.
I’m on the other side of the country.
And I’m terrified of what will happen to her.
