Sunday, December 11, 2011

Is it me? Am I just too sensitive?hat would you like to ask?

So the first thing that you need to know is I've been struggling with my eating disorder (bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa, alternatively) for the past 3 years now. I completed treatment a few months ago and am now left completely to my own devices as far as recovery goes. My mother, a woman who struggles with morbid obesity and possibly her own eating issues (according to my own observations, and confirmed by our family therapist) tends to eat late (9pm to 12am). This is something she has always complained about because she hates falling asleep on the couch/gaining weight. The reason I try to eat dinner with her is because 1) I like the feeling of eating as a "family" 2) there is more accountability if I'm eating with another person. Anyway, I made a comment to her once about putting the food in the oven so that we can eat because it was already 9:00. She said she would do it and it would be ready by the time I come back from the store. A half hour later she still hadn't put the food in the oven. So I mentioned it again and she let lose on me. She screamed at me, told me to shut the hell up because I was annoying the **** out of her. I was so upset, because all I did was make a suggestion, but apparently since I had the audacity to say it TWICE it was grounds for a tirade. I got upset and totally lost my appetite. I've been really depressed lately and have barely been eating, so this is nothing new. It got worse when she said "Oh yeah, you'll use any old excuse not to eat." That really hurt me. At one point I tried to sit her down and talk it out. I told her I wanted to try something new instead of restricting, cutting, stomping out, or being depressed. All she did was continue to yell. Then when I left to go to the store she got on the phone and starting mocking me to her friend, saying that I was weak and using my eating disorder to try to manipulate her. Granted, I shouldn't have asked her about it so many times and maybe shouldn't have brought up all the stuff about what I used to do. Am I just too sensitive? How can I change?

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