Board Thread:Clubs/@comment-43432691-20191113223954/@comment-44397452-20191117050137

Hi! So basically, this all started at the beginning of 7th grade. One of my best friends moved away and the other started going to a different school. Then, my dad got sick. It's not anything fatal but there's nothing to cure it either. Basically, any sort of cold or bacteria can turn pretty dangerous for him really quick. This means we have to change clothes when we get home, we're not allowed to have people over, so on, so on. It sucks because everything came kind of sudden. Also, I'm not one to dump stuff on other people so I normally keep all of my stress and emotions bottled up. The issue with this is when I finally build up the courage to tell someone how much this effects me, they just blame it on a "bad day" because I've never expressed this stuff before. I don't really have anyone to talk about it to so that makes it worse. I also can never tell how serious my dad's situation is because I feel like my parents don't want to worry me. This along with all of the pressures of being a teenager, I'm just always feeling like something's trying to hold me back. The other problem with my dad's condition is whenever any of my family is sick, we're kind of isolated. You know how when you don't feel good you always want a big hug rom your parents? Well, I can't get that hug without putting my dad at a risk of getting really sick. My mom keeps telling me "He's not going to die or anything" and as great as that is, I want more for my dad than "not dying". He loves teaching more than anything in the world but he can't work because he's not allowed to be around people. Even just aound us, there's a chane we picked something up from school and, without knowing it, gave it to my dad. It's pretty stressful and it sucks that there's nothing I can do. Anyway, this is turning out to be longer than I thought so... sorry.