Growing up my step dad was hard on me.Fled me the prince not in a nice way. He did this because I was quiet and kept to my self. I was called a name that in Spanish means a person that just sits there and is helpless. This is. Man that was trying to touch end beat my mother. My mother was always saying that I had the music inside.I always believed that and carried it into my adulthood

It is a well known fact that depression is a very misunderstood illness and it seems to me that your parents do not want to understand either so they make fun of you.

My mother didn't understand my depression and kept putting me down and I didn't cope well with it until I sought some help from a very good psych nurse who helped me work through a lot of things especially my late alcoholic father. This nurse put me in touch with a 12 step group and it was great and I realised that nothing was going to change until I stopped trying to change mother and work on changing myself and continuing to seek help when I needed it. I was also aware the mother was depressed too but would never admit or acknowledge it and when her doctor tried to put her antidepressants she got really angry.

Please just remember that people who have never had depression just have absolutely no idea what it is like and how tough it make life for us. Not only that they have no idea how strong we become from coping with it and dealing with it on a daily basis.

I'm sorry your going thru this my mom is the same way she refers to them ad the other people, lije most people she does not understand me or how I feel.. Those so called other people are my best friends. You hang in there, Don

Sorry about my spelling, I using a tablet.

My mother used to do things like say something mean or shocking, and then she'd laugh and say "I just wanted to see the expression on your face!"
(I do not have a poker face, I have a very honest face).
I'm not sure what happened, I think I said something back to her, because it stopped. Of course, I moved three time zones away, so we rarely see each other.