Words hurt without a doubt! I was not treated nice most if my young life by peers. I came into my own in college but my Ed started in gradeschool because of the pressures if sports and cruelty of peers! Fitting in with family wasn't any easier either!and too top it off a critical family ( immediate ) who judged hair clothes make- up etc oh and weight even to this day! If my mom doesn't like some aspect about my appearance it's a no holds barred rip out on me and I have to immediately fix what's wrong and cope with the little time she has to Kristen to me about what I have to bring up about her treatment and words! She doesn't have time for it! So she wonders after 30 years why I still have my eating disorder! I really try hard at 38 to still be perfect but seriously it going to be my undoing at some point if I don't distant myself and cut her off! I can't keep taking in hurtful worrds I've been absorbing since I was 2!