[Red Lion]

....I know exactly where you're coming from, which is weird for me because 90% of the time I can't relate to anyone's life issues. But I was in this exact place when I was in highschool/early college, I wanted to be independent and to work at my own pace doing things that really interested me, it seems like a small thing but really it isn't, being forced to work endlessly at goals that don't even feel like your own to make the people around you happy can be quite destructive and stressful. After a few years of strenuous studying and feeling like I was getting no results from any of it and no one around me could offer any kind of relief because they didn't know what I was dealing with or didn't understand that it WAS a problem and a bigger one than a lot of people think I started feeling really resentful of all the people around me and I sort of just shut myself away from everyone because their empty platitudes of "Hang in there!" or "Oh it's not so bad, you just gotta stick with it" made me want to punch them in the face. I finally changed my major and brought my grades up, but I still feel angry that I spent all that time doing something because I had to and not because I wanted to.

The best solution, try to take little "vacations" between bouts of school work and go do things that are just for your sake, have fun, see friends, join an RP, draw, whatever you like, it will alleviate some of stress and anger.