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shortandcute · Mar 04, 2013, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by thickntired

Hi,

My Mother is in denial. She believes I was misdiagnosed as bipolar and will someday be all normal and return to a corporate job. I believe it is guilt bc the alcoholism in her family was probably undiagnosed bipolar. My Dad is military and thinks I am dramatic, attention seeking, and should be able to pull myself up by the boot straps.

It still infuriates me, but I just try to ignore them. I'm mean my gosh when I was in my 20's I cut my arms so deep it took 20 staples from the ER. Who does that but an ill person?! I also know they can be toxic and I limit my time with them. Now I'm in AA for addiction and they also think that is bs.

To thine own self be true,

TnT

My oldest sister is the same way with me. It's always just "something I ate" or I'm going thru menopause (menopause at 12?) or whatever. She and her husband were my legal guardians from 16-18, and they still think that I should have been magically cured just because I live with them for a couple of years! They get frustrated with me sometimes, saying things like, "We raised you better than that," or "God gave you over to a reprobate mind" or "You were fine until you married Ralph!"
The funny thing about that is that the only reason I married him was because they told that God told them that I had to marry Ralph; they were trying to force me to marry him a lot of times before that cuz they wanted me out of the house-and I wouldn't do it. But they knew that if they told me that God said so, I would believe it.
Anyway, my sister's big thing now is to give me "pep talks." She keeps telling me to go to school and get a teacher's certificate-and saying "You can do it!"