Parents with depression

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I have a dad with depression. He yells at me alot and calls me worthless. It makes me fell like i want to commit suicide.

I would have voted for both, but my mother SEEMED more depressed, so I voted for her.

Oh, and my parents both acted absolutely hateful and disgusted with me or something I said or did that shouldn't have bothered them but just wasn't their taste, sometimes, but they were depressed.

having a parent(s) with depression can be hard. Beleave me i am 13 and getting bullied for my weight and for my behavior and how i act.

Last edited by Carole on 15 Oct 2007, 3:39 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I would have voted for both, but since my father committed suicide and my mother is still alive, I voted for dad.

Both my parents have had periods of depression. However i voted for my dad as he was sucidal as well. He even pointed out the place he thought of killing himself to me when i was 10. Thats pretty scary for a 10 year old to hear.
i can't wait to start theapry.

My mother is a nice enough person, but when she's down... she's really down. She can be almost impossible to live with without falling into depression myself. At which point she tries to cheer me up, but after all the complaining and brooding and pushing away all my attempts to be optimistic (or just pretend that the day's normal) the damage is done. Then she blames herself for it. Which makes me feel worse. As bad as my depressive episodes have been, though, I've never thought of suicide, but apparently she has because she worries I have.

I'd have to say that my mum is the most depressed. I think that she wished that I was a slender NT, like my sister. She always seems very down, when I'm around her. Of course, she's like that, all the time. I know that she mourns the sexy, popular NT firstborn daughter, that she's never had. She's ended up with Sid from 'Flushed Away' instead, and I'm supposed to be female. I think that I blame myself, for my mum's depression. She's always seemed to be disappointed with me, while I was under the age of twenty.

My mom is depressed and yells at me a lot too. Never been called worthless, but I've felt it. I do the majority of the work in the house. Cooking, cleaning, taking care of pets. She pretty much just does the laundry, and that's just because I don't know how. She lumps me in with my brother pretty often too. She says that we always ask her for money and that we never do any work. I almost never ask her for money (and a lot of the time I don't get any money when I do ask), but she seems so willing to give my brother money even though he asks a number of times a week. I think what she ultimately wants is for me to get a job so I can take care of her and the house so she can just stay in her room all day being depressed.

I understand depression, I've been there. Sleeping all day isn't gonna fix it. You have to get out there and overcome it, but she's not willing to. She'd rather just mope around for the rest of her life, complaining about her kids.

I just thank God I get to start school in a couple of months and I get to get out of here. The only thing that worries me is that this place might fall apart without me around. I'm not going to forgo an education to keep this place in shape, though. I's been going on too long and I'm sick of it.

my parents certainly are (were) not happy with each other....

it gets better when you move out. it's hard growin up cause you think your parents are perfect, and then you blame them for not being so, and once you get a little taste of the world, you start forgiving them.

it sucks and im not sure what you should do but don't let it get you down, cause you're not worthless.

well in my house it is duble-standerds with my little brother and my little sister. my dad is always letting them get away with stuff. yet he never lets me and my twin sister get away with stuff