Not a teenager anymore but my mother has done this since I was a teenager and still does.

If she percieves I'm not doing something right she will nag and nag and nag and nag until I finally do what she wants and all it does is make me resent whatever it is I was trying to do.

I was interested in film, not because of her I just liked to film and edit movies, and then she fucking pushed and pushed that I should go to film school, and film this movie or that I should go and film this and that and eventually I just stopped doing it because I knew that whatever I tried to do she would pry at.

I played guitar, I saw my sister doing it so I picked it up, then she pushed that I play for an hour every day, and then she pressures and pressures me into playing for our family reunion talent show when I didn't feel comfortable and I played terribly, it was embarrassing, and now I don't like playing guitar.

I had an odd schedule for paydays at a framing job I had but I loved my work, I worked up to 12 hours a day 6 days a week and I was always the tardy and abscent person, I was making all my car payments and rent and phone payments and feeding myself with plenty of cash to spare, then she fucking nagged and nagged me into another framing company that she found for me with regular paydays and I ended up working with a bunch of meth heads and then quitting.

It feels like I can't do anything right or have my own thing without her way being better, and she constantly reinforces that I'm not doing good enough no matter what I am doing. I constantly feel like a failure and it crushes me inside.