Everytime I try to talk to my mom about my anxiety and how if affect me and the way I act and feel, she constantly dismisses it as "normal". At first I assumed this was her way of comforting me whenever I said I didnt feel normal, but as I got older and tried to tell her that these reassurances actually made me feel worse, she would just ignore me, and makes me feel as though I am just looking for attention. While I'm on my own trying to understand my anxiety, I can tell what I feel is not what many other people feel, but whenever I try to have that conversation with her my confidence disappears. When I tried to explain how exhausting social situations are, even with my friends, and that's why I dont go out, she basically tells me to get over myself. She pushes me to do things that I'm not comfortable with all the time, to the point where ive ended up either crying in the bathroom every other time I go out and having constant stomach aches. She used to work in social care a few years ago, and uses that to insist that she knows better then I do about my own mental health. Its gotten to the point where I avoid talking about my mental health at all to anyone, which has only made it worse.