Q Assalamu Alaikum. I am a young Muslim in my early 20s who has grown up with mentally and emotionally abusive narcissistic parents, and with a sibling. It’s been a lifetime of abuse. I am trying my best to recover but they keep blaming me for my health problems and are extremely unsupportive. Whatever I do is never good for them, even if I do what they say, they change their words the very next minute or deny they ever suggested that. Everybody, from doctors to Muslim scholars, Muslim therapists, counsellors has told me either to run away before or leave home as it was extremely bad. Even now professionals have told me to leave as they fear for my future at I won’t be able to reach my full potential living at home due to all the barriers. There is occasional mental abuse that happens. It’s not as bad as before but affects me intensely. Have other people lived in these circumstances and grown before, is it possible? I just want to run away most times & start fresh but I think with my age it’s too late & will be too hard to start from scratch. I wish someone had intervened when I was younger, as a child. Even though I told them I was scared what the outcome would be. What’s your advice? How can I improve and move forward in a situation like this?