Please, help! My [21F] brother [35M] destroyed my passport and my mother [46F] wants me to dump my boyfriend [23M]

i absolutely understand this. i hope i'm not endangering you by giving you some info about help in scandinavian countries (i'm swedish):

  • if you need to leave right away, try calling a womens shelter (en kvinnojour). they might give you a temprary, hidden place to stay. they can also help you with questions about your rights, what to pack if you need to leave urgently, etc. they can also be your first step to getting help from social services. there is also a national telephone helpline for women experiencing abuse / violence called kvinnofridslinjen in sweden. it doesn't show up on your phone bill and it doesn't cost anything.
  • don't hesitate to get in contact with social services (socialtjänsten). they have a lot of experience with women living in similar siutations. all counties (kommuner) have one. they might be able to help you with an apartment, giving you a ex-directory number / address so your family won't know where you live, etc.
  • finally, your city might not give out emergency passports, but you could travel to any other city that provides them. you should be able to walk into any police station and file for a temporary passport. you might have to travel back to that city later on, but sometimes there is also the possibility to have it shipped to your local police station. if you have a national id card, you might be able to travel with that alone (this depends on the country of travel).

getting a therapist is the harder part of all of this, and i do think you need someone to talk to about all of this. if you're in some type of school, there should be a counselour (en kurator) that can either guide you through all of this, or get you a refferal to a psychologist. of course, there might be these kinds of services through your countys women shelter. i know that kvinnofridsjouren offer low-cost therapy for women in uppsala, stockholm, and umeå (i think).

i hope everything goes well for you. if nothing else, somewhere in sweden you have someone rooting for you.

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