How to ask for help?

[YesterdaysNews]

Can someone please help me. I don't have a great relationship with my mother but I feel that if I don't talk to someone I could actually kill myself one of these days. I just don't know how to ask for this kind of thing. Any advice you can give me will help. thanks.

[My_Toes_Are_Cold]

... I am either stupid from being up so late, or you didn't make a lot of sense in the post.

Are you saying you want help in mending relations with your mother, or you just want someone to go to when you have trouble and need to let everything go?

[YesterdaysNews]

It was probably me not being clear.
I'm asking for advice on how to ask my mother to take me to some sort of therapist, does that make it clearer?
Sorry bout that

[My_Toes_Are_Cold]

Just tell her, or talk to another authority figure about it. If you trust a school counselor enough then you can bring it up to them. Tell your mother that you want to see a therapist to improve your mental health and if she refuses, then you must persist. Or go to another figure that could help you get a therapist.

Why would your mother be against going to a therapist or psychologist.

[Appleton]

yep. the best approach is to be direct and tell her. let her know what you're feeling and that you need someone to talk to that's not a family member and someone that's impartial to whatever may be going on in your life. Good luck.

[YesterdaysNews]

okay. Its not that she has anything against it, it's just that I have trouble bringing things up like this with anyone, let alone my mom.

[AncientCatastrophe]

The best option is to directly tell her that.....To bring up this conversation tell her you need a therapist while eating or watching together or f shes in a good mood........If you don't have a good communication with each other its okay, besides shes your mother, she'll understand it and I'm sure she'll agree with you, just tell her what you really are trying to say to her.
:serenade::love:

[My_Toes_Are_Cold]

okay. Its not that she has anything against it, it's just that I have trouble bringing things up like this with anyone, let alone my mom.

Then let me write you a prescription for two testicles.

... That was a bit harsh.

Sometimes you just have to be strong for yourself. It may not come as easily to others as it does for me, but it is possible. Your mother sure as hell won't hate you or insult you just for wanting to see a therapist - she created you and pushed you out of her vagina, for fuck's sake. If your own mother ostracizes you for wanting to see a therapist (which I highly doubt she would), you shouldn't even let that bother you because she isn't worth caring about if she'd disown her own kid for something so small.

[YesterdaysNews]

That was... but you're right. okay. thanks