My mother is a therapist and works as a school counselor, but it kills me that she is so altruistic in the light, yet so mean in the background. She's talked terribly about her clients whenever she counseled privately- and in such rich detail I knew their names, and even some of their friends. Moreover, she routinely talks terribly about her own family members, and specifically abuses her two children. Typically its just mentally and verbally- but as time has passed she's become more willing to lay her hands on us now. I've been both so lucky and cursed to have been kicked out. I'm free, but still weighed down with my experiences. It's my poor little brother who has to stay, because he's not an adult- he's barely a teen. What's worse though is that there's no hope he'll ever get a better experience because she won't change. When she's confronted, she reminds people of her job, her titles, and the unsaid of all that is "how could I be bad when I'm a _?". She's just genuinely bad.