Dear Janine:

Your parents being able to afford a (competent) therapist for you, knowing you need one and not providing you with a therapist is cruel, considering they were the ones who caused you to be in need of therapy!

You have two options as I see it: accept their financial non support and make it on your own. Somehow, survive and thrive without them, no contact with them, not now, not ever. You can get no-cost therapy to start with- there are such resources out there. You can decide that you are going to make it without them. Now and onward.

If they will pay for a competent therapist for you IF you go to college, the other option is to apply and attend a college and therapy. This option could maybe be okay if your contact with your parents is not harming you so much that the therapy will be useless.

What do you think of the two options, and is there any other option?

anita