Perhaps you should take some medicine.

[His gaze becomes cold as his thoughts turn towards the clinical. Or perhaps it hurts because it is the sort of pain one cannot medicate?]

I am more than aware this is difficult but try reframing your personal grievance towards your situation. What you struggle with is different to difficulty. It could be the fact you have opposition. Somebody else is challenging you. Be they your family. Be they your a friend. Or even your therapist.