![]() We didn’t have a way to express our feelings about our mental health so publicly when I was a teen, if we spoke about it at all we generally just flopped ourselves on a friend’s bed and spoke in hushed voices if a parent - usually their mom - was home. I was seeking help earlier this year, last year, because I was in a state where I didn’t know what to do.” “I know it’s not really anyone’s business, but I kind of made it everyone’s business - not intentionally. A year later she announced - this time on TikTok - that things were getting better with her mother. It reminds me of when the 16-year-old daughter of Kellyanne and George Conway made headlines when she declared on Twitter in 2020 that she was “officially pushing for emancipation” from her parents, and accused her mom of physical and verbal abuse. … But the most traumatizing part of this experience is how public it’s been.” I’m not suicidal but I am experiencing some mental issues. On TikTok the day after, the teen, reading from a script, was clear - her cutting “had nothing to do with my sexuality or my father. The pandemic has not made anything easier. Same if you have a loved one who struggles with mental health, or struggle yourself. If you have a loved one who is queer or genderqueer - as many of us do - or that is how you identify, the world feels especially hard right now, in light of the hate-fueled mass murder at a LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last month. Her father, like many Republican politicians and folks across the country, has been openly hostile to the LGBTQ+ community.
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