Strict parents

I’ve always been a rule follower. I’m literally known as a “good girl”. For some reason..my parents don’t let me do anything normal teenagers do! I’m turning 16 in October and yet they are overprotective about little things like how late I stay up. They don’t let me stay up past 9:30. I’m not allowed to go to many friends houses or parties. I’m not allowed to see rates R or sometimes even PG-13 movies! I’m not allowed to have ANY social media. And my parents constantly check my phone! I’m especially not allowed to date. All of their rules have driven me to want to rebel...and then they call that me being a typical teen, but it’s mainly because I’m being held back by all their rules! Now I’m dating a guy-we’ve been 3 months strong and my parents still don’t know about it. Whenever I bring something up about me being able to do stuff that they wouldn’t approve of they immediately shut it down or exaggerate it making it sound like I’m going to die! And it’s at the point where well..if I’m going to die doing whatever they don’t want me to do at least I’ll die living! Also me never being allowed to go out makes me feel bad because my friends ask me to do all these things but I’m never allowed. That’s given me anxiety..I’ve had two big anxiety attacks now and have mini ones almost every night! And then also I’m never allowed to do things for myself like go on a movie date or stay up late in piece and quiet with out my Psycho family around and all these little things that they have thrown onto me have driven me into a big depression. I cut. But trust me I’m smart! And most of the time I can stop. But my parents don’t understand how tough handling them is.. but I understand that I can be tough to handle and very little of the things i ask of them are crazy...but that’s very little of the things I ask.

I just need to know how to stop them from being so strict and make them understand what it’s like being a teen in this generation. I feel like I need to start living but I’m being held back...I’m jealous of the freed.

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