Recently, I moved to a new state. The previous place I lived was full of conflict that made my parents hate the place. I had a job and "spent too much time there", " wasted " my money buying things off Amazon, told my parents that I want to be a girl (and an really confused in terms of sexuality), and had constant power struggles with them. Granted, I did a lot of stuff I shouldn't have during this (like storming out of the house after exploding at my mom about something, and going behind their backs for many things), but they did their fair share of wrong too. They isolated me to the point where I hated being home, took away things I liked too much rather than help me use them responsibly, asked me "what right did I have" when I told them how bad I was feeling, and generally made very little effort to understand me or have reasonable conversations with me.
However, one incident that stands out in my memory happened one dark night when I walked out with the intention of walking into the ocean and never coming back. They picked me up, ranting about how "it was on me to save my family" (relationship-wise). Then, when I told them off my intentions, they actually said "how dare you". And we aren't even the kind of people who believe suicide is a sin. And the next day, when I told my counselor at school and asked for help, they yelled at me for doing it.
Forgive me, but in my eyes, they just lost my respect and trust. (I lost theirs years ago. We never really got along all that well.)
Now that we moved, my mom is completely denying what happened there. Like, when I brought up how I had a doctor's diagnosis with depression, or said it might be a good idea to keep going to a therapist, she said " I told you we aren't doing that here!! Here isn't going to be another South Carolina, and if you want to do that you can just go back there right now!! " She also frequently accuses me of "not trying" and talks about how she's doing everything different (read: letting me watch TV or play with the dog out keep the phone I bought behind her back). But she's not really doing anything different where it matters most.
And I don't know what to do about this. Because it seems that anytime I criticize my parents (even without being rude) they go on the defensive, or else shut down the conversation. Things aren't good. And I'm not sure how to talk to them about this. Does anybody have any advice?