What do I have to do to feel like my parents approve of me? I'm 18 and the youngest of 4. we all get along with our parents so well, but when I'm not in the room, I hear them talk about me. I know how they feel about me, and to be honest, I feel like they think I'm a mistake. I'm not a bad child, I'm just the normal college student. I like to go out on the weekends, but I'm not irresponsible. I don't binge drink, or drink and drive. I'm trying my hardest in school, and have a ton of friends. But they still manage to make me feel not good enough.

I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder and clinical depression my junior year of high school, and I don't understand how my parents can make me feel this way knowing that I have these diseases. It's difficult enough comparing myself to my friends. But instead, I have to deal with my parents comparing me to my older, prettier, and smarter siblings.

What do I have to do to get them to accept me? I'm such a black sheep, and am sick of it.

Or perhaps it is that disorder that is making you feel this way and you have taken normal parent feelings and feel it is something directed wrongly toward you