My parents are actually crazy.

A year ago my father left my mother for a younger woman. This was spring last year, he then returned in the summer only to leave again a week before christmas. I was very upset for a month or two, but then I managed to return to normal. I didn't speak to my father until three months after he left the second time. As soon as he returned, I felt much happier - even happier than before, however my mother went mental - literally. She constantly calls him and asks him to come round to have a meal or something, only to shout and hit him repetitively - sometimes hitting him so hard he falls to the floor. He never does anything back, and he tries to remain her friend and help her through this. My mother however has none of it, and constantly shouts at him and thinks that he will return to the family for no reason, as my father says nothing to indicate that he will. She has been screaming and shouting every single night for the past three months and she is actualyl driving me insane now too. She is mental without the alcohol, and the alcohol makes it even worse. I'm worried she's become an alcoholic. She even got a driving ban for drink driving. I feel sorry for her, but her selfishness is too much. Not once has she worried about me or how I'M feeling through this, and even though I tell her all the time that she's driving me into insanity literally as well, and she's ruining all my school work (I recently had to revise for an important science GCSE exam listening to her shouting, and I am worried she is preventing me from reaching my full potential) - not only is she ruining my mental health, she is also ruining my career. She constantly uses vulgar language in front of me of how my dad is ''fxcking his girlfriend every night'' even though he has left her now. She has pushed me whilst angry a number of times, and I'm afraid to say I have hit her back lightly when she has used vulgar language like this. I have never hit anyone in my life before, and this is what my mother has driven me too. I am only 15 and should not be having to cope with this. They should be doing everything in their power to protect me, and although my father is, my mother is messing up my life. I would move in with my father, however as my mother has threatened suicide (I'm not sure whether she was serious) I do not want to leave her in case she does anything stupid.

My mother has had a psychologist before, and that tbh didn't even do anything. So i was wondering what advice you could give me, cause no matter what I do or say, she does not care as she is so selfish.
She is turning into her mother (my grandmother) even though her mother drove her into leaving her home country of germany to come to england, and she is doing the same to me, as soon as I can - I'm leaving. I literally am going mental myself having to listen to it all the time. I, without realising until someone commented, no longer let people hug me and I haven't cried properly in ages whereas I used to be a very emotional person.

Please help.

The reason i have joined this site is because of your letter i am a sixty three year old male, but the description of what you are going through has taken me back 33 years. I left my wife and son for another woman, never meant to loose my son, thought every thing would be ok when the dust settled, but my wife reacted like your Mom (its understanderble.)

I would realley like to meet you parents and explain to them its not about them, its all about you, but hang in there, you come across as a sensible and mature person.

To try and help, i would like to say that my son and me are now on good terms,(after 25 years) and that he has turned out to be a stronger and better man than me.

My heart goes out to you.