I'm 16 about to be 17 next month. I live in Florida with my mom and best friend john who is 21. My father lives in new york and has been there for 4 years now. My mother has many illnesses, mental and physical that disable her from being able to take care of me. For the past year she hasn't done anything but sit on the couch and watch movies and take out her anger by yelling at me because she has problems with my dad. I have a job and work to pay for food or anything else I need to live. What ever money she gets monthly from my dad she spends on medications because we don't have insurance. Last month she got bakeracted because she claimed to take 12 lythium pills to kill herself, SO I called the police and they did their job. She always calls me names such as "little bastard", "faggot", "good for nothing piece of shit". She also tells me to "go to hell" and to "go **** myself".
Tonight 10/8/07 she hit me in the arm and face repeatedly with a leather dog collar while she was in a psychotic state. I don't ever do anything to bother her she just has mental problems and its as simple as that, but I can't take it anymore. She is planning on admitting herself in a clinic for 6 months and I don't want to move to NY because I have a lot going for me here in FL.
Can you please point me in the right direction and let me know if my reasons for wanting to get emancipated are justified. And if so how I should go about it.

