Is it normal that i'm scared of my parents?

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My mom has good days and bad days. On her good days, she's the most wonderful person. We play scrabble together, and chat, and go shopping. But they almost never happen. Most of the time, she is stressed, blames me for all her problems, says that she should never have done anything nice for me and gets upset about anything I might have said or done in the last ten years, and I hate it. I want her approval and love more than anything, but I'm never good enough.

My dad is starting to punctuate perfectly normal conversations with "You need help", totally out of the blue, and I'm terrified. I'm so scared that they want to put me in an institution, and I know I'm not crazy.

Please tell me: is it normal to be so scared of your parents?

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    My father repeatedly told me, as a ten year old, that they were coming to get me at the weekend to lock me up for observation. I was petrified. It's only as an adult that I realise it was transference. He thought he was losing his own mind and the only way he could deal with it was to push the problem onto someone else.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    I'm really not sure whether to believe your story or not.

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  • Musse
    13 years ago

    You should try to understand your parents, they seem like odd people compared to yourself.
    You shouldn't feel scared of your parents, more then that you just don't want to disappoint them.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    they dont sound scary

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  • aussiewolf
    13 years ago

    may i ask the topic of conversations you are having when your dad says that you need help?

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