Dear Ana:

You are still living in the Netherlands? Better stay there, or move elsewhere, but not back to Portugal, not to live with your parents. You are stuck where you are, I understand, but your chances to get un-stuck are better being away from home (where you got stuck to begin with).

If you can attend some kind of competent psychotherapy, perhaps a low cost therapy or even no- cost, please do. If your parents can send you money so to attend therapy- ask them. Competent psychotherapy is the best place to start your healing.

When you moved away from your parents, you enjoyed the freedom. Unfortunately what you learned living with them, what you learned about yourself and about others, about life while living with them, moved with you to the Netherlands. To unlearn some of those things, therapy would be best.

Pursuing nursing sounds good to me!

anita