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Default Mar 08, 2019 at 02:58 AM
 
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Originally Posted by PyschCentral_User25 View Post
Hi,

Things have been really hard at home. I'm a teen, and there's a lot of fighting at home between my guardians. Things get heated at times they become physical.
I don't know what to do. I can't just call the police because it would look bad on our family, and our whole neighborhood would see it.

There's a reason why things are sort of the way they are at home, I won't explain as I want to stay as anonymous as possible.

I feel we live in a home where it involves dealing with someone who's manipulative, controlling, and mentally ill. We keep giving more than multiple second chances. But this is a family member we're talking about, so just calling the police or whatever would be shameful.

It's so hard to focus on school living with constant fighting and yelling every single day. It's a cycle of getting along, fights happening again. They're not regular fights too. They can happen maybe 3 times a day, for 30 minutes to an hour.

I don't know what to do.
It is NOT shameful if there is physical abuse or severe emotional abuse. Safety is not shameful. Because of how you seem to have been raised or at least the abusive home you are used to- you seem to feel that you must protect those that are doing the abusing. This is not abnormal but you have to know that protecting yourself and other minors in the home is the most important thing. It is shameful that the adults you live with are acting this way and causing you harm. Is there a school guidance counselor you can talk to?

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