i’m 14 and i’m a alcoholic and addicted to nicotine. it started last year when i got drunk for the first time and i loved it so much. i did so i didn’t have to feel anything. one day i got really drunk and spilled my feelings to my friends and parents. i told them i wanted to die and needed to go to a hospital. the next week i was admitted to a hospital where they mentally abused me. i was starved for almost 2 days, i couldn’t wear a bra bc the straps counted as strings, i had to sleep in the same room as someone, i told them i couldn’t breath and they ignored me, and so so so much more. i got out and all the nic and alcohol were gone from my house but i still smoke and drink. i don’t get drunk bc i don’t have enough alcohol for that but i can smoke whenever and i’m ashamed that i still do it. i have a horrible addiction at such a young age and idk what to do. i wanna stop but i can’t.

I been thinking real hard about even relaying these awful things about the person that I have admired the most, the person I have respected and revered my whole life but that now, has completely backstabbed me in the worst way possible. A few years ago, a scandal broke in my political family involving my mother. As you can imagine, it nearly broke my marriage and tore my husband’s family apart. My sister in law found my father in law and my mom talking on social media. The worst part of it, when I was confronted, I was accused of knowing about the whole affair and made it looked like I was an accomplice to the whole ordeal. When I had absolutely no clue to such a disgusting mess. I don’t know what neither of them were trying to accomplish and now, I’m the black sheep of the family. No one talks to me. While my father in law is still loved and honored. My mother the home wrecker and I pay the sins of her ordeals. She never once has said I’m sorry. Never! In her head, I’m better off without that side of the family. But it’s not about that; why did she do this to me? Why my father in law? Among so many men? Why him! I guess I’m just looking for an explanation and I know I will never get it from her. Because she just cannot accept she did anything wrong. I wish I could get her version because as of now, I only know everyone else’s but her’s. I always thought I didn’t need to hear her side because it’s not my place to question her, but I have kids who now have to suffer for her sins as well. I don’t think it’s fair to them either. I guess the damage is done as well and the past is the past. I won’t get nothing accomplished but I just want an acknowledgment from her part that she messed up.

• August 12, 2023