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I am 15 years old and I live with my mom and her boyfriend that I don’t much care for. Theres always been issues about fighting and yelling and the occasional hit in the arm or side but lately it has been what people are telling me emotional abuse. Whenever i do even the smallest mistake i get an overkill punishment. im not just saying that because i am a teenager and im sick of being told what to do but its unreasonable and they compare me to my sisters and say they wish i was more like them. sometimes when i am depressed things get out of hand and my mom tells me to be depressed in my room and i tell her what if i cut myself or kill myself and she says just do it in your room. once i even did it in front of her to prove a point and she sent me to my room. ive been to a mental hospital because i became suicidal in my home. school seems to be my safe place and i always find waysto get high just to numb myself. i live in the garage, isolated from the family and they make me feel alone. and yesterday i was hospitalized for a severe illness and my mom had been giving me dilaudid which is an extremely dangerous narcotic, my moms boyfriend told me not to talk about it or else i would be taken from my home. the side affects made me ver dizzy and high and i suffered a lot and i could over dose very easily. ive been talking to my friends they tell me to report my parents. i feel like the dilaudid was the last straw but i say that about every incident :/ im torn and dont know what to do. i dont want to be taken but im tired of being treated so bad and im tired of not having help for my depression. ive tried counseling but when i open up to them they send police to my house to investigate so at this point all i ave are my friends to talk about it to.

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