I feel depressed, and kinda miserable. I really thought going back home would be a good thing, and that it would help me get past the issues with my family, but I feel like I just fight everyone around me while I'm here, because they project this picture on me, and if I don't fit it then I must be a bad person.

It's also kind of depressing when your own mother thinks you've been subject to some witchcraft or something and is trying to break the curse through holy water and readings from the Quraan. I'm not a bad person just because I don't believe in the same things she does. I feel disappointed and tricked, because all they've been trying to do it seems is talk me out of being with Jay.

And I feel depressed be cause I can't talk to him, I can't call him or go see him and just tell him everything until he makes me feel better.

I also feel depressed because my brother thinks I came back for some personal gain instead of to have my mother back in my life again. I feel tricked because they're telling me all these scenarios about "what if your father does this and that and this and you never get to leave the country or see him again?"

And I feel depressed because I wasn't told about any of this before I came, and I was tricked instead, and now that I'm here, there's nothing I can really do to get out, because I've put all my trust and faith in my mother to help me. And she doesn't want to. I see her reluctance. I know why she's trying to convert me back, because she's HOPING this is the work of the devil, and once it's gone I'll be her daughter again.

But this being who I am, why am I made to feel like a bad person? I know I hurt them by running away, but I wish they saw that hurting them was not the REASON for my running away, nor was it an indication that I no longer loved them.

And I still think I'm a good person.

I'm just so so depressed.

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