The fact of the matter is that I'm going through what is probably the toughest time of my life at the moment, in what has been described by the head of the HR department as "a roller coaster that nobody on Earth would ever want to ride" and I'm dealing with a cancer scare. I've lost 20 lbs in the last two months from stomach issues as well (apparently stress induced, according to gastroenterologist). One of the three people that raised me, my grandma, is about to die from Alzheimer's and she doesn't remember who I am. My mother is spiraling into alcoholism, stemming from severe anxiety and depression. I'm also planning on leaving here anyways within the next year because I can't deal with all this bullshit anymore. I, a grown ass man, have to take care of my kid brother half the time because our abusive, alcoholic, and drug addict estranged father has never been there for him and he needs a male role model as he goes into high school. One of my closest friends died back in November, and he was my age. It was sudden, too. Another friend had died of brain cancer a couple days before the other friend. I don't have anyone else to turn to, its truly Me against the World. I literally have no one to talk to other than the clinical social worker and the psychiatrist that I just got referred to. I don't want to scare the girl I just started dating away with my slightly insane personality. I'll feed it to her bit by bit so its not like she gets slammed in the face with all of it. My father keeps harassing me, and every time his name pops up on my phone when he leaves those goddamn nasty texts and voicemails, I remember all the shit he did to me, all the abuse I suffered in his hands (emotional, physical, and sexual) and I just can't handle it much longer. I'm not sure if I'll make it through the day, let alone make it to next year when I have enough money so I can get the fuck out of here.

HR lady had stage 1 cancer for one month. It never came back. She had it 15 years ago. And she has the audacity to call my problems insignificant compared to that?

I probably shouldn't have snapped, but the strain I'm under makes it impossible for me not to snap when dealing with something like that.