My mother has seems to have developed a sick addiction with using me as her personal negative-energy repository.

Anyone have experience with letter mothers/mother-figures down gently?

I just want her to realize that I don't appreciate being her first line of defense when she gets all messed up and self-defeated... or does that make me a bad person?

I dunno.. I take it all in stride right now. But it does aggravate me to know end.