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Open Question: I don't know how to help my dad when I can't tell him the truth. Help?
This might sound ranty but I need to explain this.
To start off, my dad never went to college and hasn't had a job since before I was born (so over 16 years and he is 57). He is also depressed and has told me he thinks about suicide a lot and that he has a bottle of painkillers that he just stares at and contemplates.
He's also been acting weird lately. It's never been this bad. he has a really bad temper. Like, last night my dad wanted me to check to see if something was recording and I did and it wasn't so i pressing record and he just started yelling at me, "I DON'T KNOW IF THIS THE RIGHT SHOW!!!!! JUST GIVE ME THE REMOTE!!!", even though it was the right show based on what he said the name was and what it was about. We just got into a huge argument and when it kinda stopped, my mom was laughing hysterically and I started laughing too and my dad was just said, "whatever, fine, this is why I don't like talking and hanging with you guys down here." and he just went upstairs and played on his computer for the rest of the night.
He also has an off sense of reality. Like I said before, he hasn't had a job and is by himself A LOT, so he kinda went a little crazy with his viewing of the world. For example, he thinks everyone should agree with him and if you don't agree with, he'll give you reasons why you should and then give you this face, like "now do you see my point? thanks for agreeing" even if we say nothing, he just automatically thinks his opinions are superior and that EVERYONE must agree with them. Also, if he's driving and someone makes ONE mistake (even a little one that doesn't affect anyone's driving) he'll just say "Idiot!" in a very condescending way.
He literally does nothing in the house (just watches tv and plays on his computer) and when my mom asks him to do something, he'll either force me to do it or do it, but yell and complain that he "does everything and you and mom do nothing". He spends so much of my mom's hard-earned money (she's a teacher and even takes extra jobs there to earn extra) and my grandma's (she sends $300 each month to help with bills but he uses it on himself). In the last 8 years, the big things I've gotten an ipod touch, iphone 4s and a couple of video games (like 6 or 7). In the last 12 years, all my mom's gotten has been a new laptop, iphone 4s and new car. In the last 2 years, my dad has gotten like 25 video games (at least 20 he hasn't even played once), new xbox and tons of accessories. When he says he wants a new video game and I try to talk him out of it, he always says, "What? Don't you think I deserve a new video game?" I'm like, "uhhh... no" but just keep quiet, knowing it's useless.
He's been trying to go to college to become a video game creator but apparently, he has taken classes and wasted thousands of dollars trying at least 15 different careers (none worked out) and he wants to use my grandma's inheritance (she isn't dead yet, so I don't know why he's talking about it) which is $32000 and go to a big college, even though we are having trouble sending me to college (I'm gonna need to get scholarships) and my mom wants to use the money to help pay off bills and also go on a vacation (my mom needs it and we've never gone anywhere big), but he wants it be all his money and waste it doing something he won't finish (he literally hasn't finished anything he said he would do.
I love my dad, but sometimes its hard because I want to tell him the truth that what he does hurts our family financially and definitely emotionally (I've thought so many times my parents would get divorced and mom even told she thinks it may have been a mistake to marry him). I just want to help him, but whenever we take him out of his "fantasy land" and try to get him back into reality, he gets mad, furious and very suicidal. We've talked about family counseling because me and my mom talk to each other fine, but neither of us know how to talk to him.
Thanks to whoever read this :) it's just been something we've been dealing with for a while and no knows how to solve this and my dad doesn't think he has a problem.
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