Dear Tessa:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !

In honor of your birthday I went back to your previous threads starting Jan 12, 2016. There is an opportunity for insight in your own writing that follows. Take this opportunity for a better year and life ahead.

1/12/16: “I come from a family where my parents are still together. While they have their issues like everyone else, they do love each other and are fully committed.

10/14/16:  my mother is a narcissist …. My mother often times acts like a rude 16 year old, starting fights…for the most part we all agree that we had a perfect childhood

10/31/16: My family is also very toxic…My two sisters and my mother are severely mentally ill…Maybe I would have to cut contact to be happier in the long run? I’m not sure. That might be something for me to think about.

…since youth I have always been fairly different from my sisters and the rest of my family. With that said, sometimes I’m afraid their issues will “catch up to me” (as far as developing the same mental illnesses, falling into depression or a lack of progression in life) so I think I try to consciously separate myself from them as to not fall into the same life and issues.

Maybe I will distance myself from all 3 entirely just to preserve myself for a bit. I need to step away from all of the commotion in my life because I am so scatter brained and don’t know where to start to get better”

anita