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Ok so I am a junior and lately I have been very stressed out about my AP's and ACT and just school in general. But thats not the problem. The problem is that my family owns a business and I am supposed to work there every weekend (fridays, saturdays, sundays) and lately I have been getting so much work to do in the weekend or I am so tired that I don't wanna do anything, but I can't do it all during the weekend. I get home at around 2:30 and on weekdays I spent an hour-2 hours doing paperwork with my dad and on fridays I have to be at work at 4:30 so I have an hour rest when I get home but I don't come home from work until 10-10:30ish and its not like I feel like doing hw because I am so tired. On saturdays I wanna wake up late because its one of the two days I can actually sleep in late so I don't start homework until 12:00ish and I have to be at work by 3:30 and I start getting ready at 2:30 so that day is wasted and thats my weekend cycle. The point is that I can't handle all my work load during the weekend and the weekend is supposed to be relaxing because no school but its not at all like that for me. And the worst part is that I try talking to my parents about not going Sundays because its one day but my dad, who came to this country when he was 16, said all you have to do is study, it isn't that hard. He says that he works all day and he isn't complaining. Its not that im worried about having to do homework , its that i feel like my heads about to explode everyday coming home from 6 hours of school to 5 hours of work or homework.I just feel like I can't count on my parents anymore and that they don't even care about me sometimes, which i know is not true, but i feel like I've had so many cries for help that i don't know what to do anymore. I have had multiple thoughts about suicide before because I can't handle this stress. The stress of going to work, getting good grades, getting good act scores, collages.... and its not like i have time to hang out with my friends or even do any type of relaxation for myself. I feel like if i tell my parents they are not gonna understand since they grew up differently and have different cultures but how can i tell them work isn't everything even though they believe that. Well at least work isn't everything for a 16 year old.