My mom has always had some mental instability.

When I was young, she would be all depressed, talk about how she wanted to commit suicide, and be drunk.

Mind you, she grew up in a third world country where her own mother abused her, got cheated on by my older brother’s father when my older brother was a year old, and my father had abused us physically when I was a child.

I’m 20 years old now and I want more positivity in my life. I work full time as a software engineer and I go to college part time.

Tonight I had to block her again because she was causing drama, and my brother got upset with me for upsetting her. She tells me about her sex life, about how depressed she feels, how she’s worried about not getting a job even though she has 200k given to her as severance from her old job plus 120k in her 401k and she keeps asking us for money while she’s looking for a job.

And no matter how many times I tell her to get help, she refuses to get help.

I’m tired of having to parent my mom- would it be wrong of me to block her for awhile? Like maybe just a month? It hurts me to do this but I know it’s necessary for my sake.

I just want my mom to be normal and to be ok.