My day has honestly been horrible. I've been doing good so far this year with no depressive thoughts, no thoughts of ctb, etc, but lately it has gotten so much worse. My girlfriend of about a year has been manipulating me, guilt tripping me, and gaslighting me ever since she went off to college. I feel like I can never be upset or even mildly perturbed by anything anymore concerning her or she will lash out at me and be extremely horrible and cruel to me. Today, I was excited because she came back yesterday and we had made plans to hang out. But she couldn't, because apparently her mother missed her. That's something I can understand, but I was still so upset because we went through all this effort to plan, and I tried so hard to get nice and tidy and whatnot for her just for it to not go through. But I didn't blame her. I didn't blame anyone. Yet when I expressed sadness and anger she just screamed at me, yelled at me and said "you're not the only person who misses me" and basically saying that me missing her doesn't matter at all because other people do and pretty much telling me I couldn't be upset about it because her mom has sleep troubles when she's not there. It hurt so much but I knew if I argued she'd just threaten to break up with me or something or get even more upset. Every sensible person would leave, but I am not sensible. She's the only person in my life who's even given me an ounce of affection and our good conversations still turn out okay. If she leaves me I'll truly be alone and I'm scared. But she keeps making me feel this way and I don't know what to do. I don't know.
My day has honestly been horrible. I've been doing good so far this year with no depressive thoughts, no thoughts of ctb, etc, but lately it has gotten so much worse. My girlfriend of about a year has been manipulating me, guilt tripping me, and gaslighting me ever since she went off to college. I feel like I can never be upset or even mildly perturbed by anything anymore concerning her or she will lash out at me and be extremely horrible and cruel to me. Today, I was excited because she came back yesterday and we had made plans to hang out. But she couldn't, because apparently her mother missed her. That's something I can understand, but I was still so upset because we went through all this effort to plan, and I tried so hard to get nice and tidy and whatnot for her just for it to not go through. But I didn't blame her. I didn't blame anyone. Yet when I expressed sadness and anger she just screamed at me, yelled at me and said "you're not the only person who misses me" and basically saying that me missing her doesn't matter at all because other people do and pretty much telling me I couldn't be upset about it because her mom has sleep troubles when she's not there. It hurt so much but I knew if I argued she'd just threaten to break up with me or something or get even more upset. Every sensible person would leave, but I am not sensible. She's the only person in my life who's even given me an ounce of affection and our good conversations still turn out okay. If she leaves me I'll truly be alone and I'm scared. But she keeps making me feel this way and I don't know what to do. I don't know. I feel so stuck.
You might feel alone but you also might feel less degraded if you do leave!