Family doesn't even have to be mean to be in denial. I don't know where it comes from, but when I told my mom what my physical illness is she just stated "No, you don't have that." My dad seems to believe me but forgets that it might affect me, and when I visit he makes me do things that are totally draining for me.

I know it would be hopeless to bring up a mental diagnosis. They would just brush it off, fast so they wouldn't have to think of it.

They aren't mean, they don't ridicule me. Still this. I feel it's something you have to be family to do... some kind of closeness that makes everything worse, how it happens I don't know.

The same I think goes for meanness, I know many parents who were perfectly nice to strangers but always nasty with family, for no other reason than they are family.

Distance seems to make things better. Maybe my parents treat me well just because I'n not in their life much?