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I (m22)have been at home for more than a year basically doing "nothing". I had to quit my job after getting a burn out and depression. Since then I worked on myself in therapy , I learned that there's a huge amount of childhood trauma that influences almost every aspect of my life. Time flew by and last month I decided to start EMDR, and taper off Lexapro to go back to a "neutral" self. I'm on Lexapro, Ritalin and propranolol . The past couple of weeks have been hard with the withdrawal symptoms but things are starting to get better. Now my sister (18) doesn't think it's fair that I get to "be lazy" and that she's working on getting a degree. I have driven her to school in the morning, I've helped her study, I even did a whole project for her...but once I try to set a boundary and tell her that I won't drive her to school on a specific day, she says that I don't have any responsibility and that it's unfair that she's working her ass off while I can rest all day. Now me doing nothing might be true if you just look at it from the outside but I also can't really do a lot. I don't have the energy to party, I can't go on walks, I have to sleep 10 hours and am still tired all day long, I am never hungry, I can't concentrate, I wake up thinking if I should still be fighting this battle etc. I feel ashamed of the situation I'm in, I feel worthless. This is so extremely annoying, because I get her point, but I'm literally surviving even the simplest tasks while being jealous that my sister has the energy to study and party. And I'm trying so hard to drive her to school and still do some things for her, and then I hear that she thinks I'm lazy and that it's not fair that I get to rest all day. My sister means a lot to me and it makes me think that I'm actually a bad person for saying no to some of her resuests . Any insights?
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