Backsliding and blaming others

swinnie239
swinnie239 Posts: 423 Member
edited November 12 in Social Groups
Okay, I know and ultimately it is my own choices and I cannot blame others for what I do to myself. I have to recognize what's going on and try to not give urges.

I just keep on blaming other people of my ED and I hate them and myself for it. I blame my mother for starting me on this path. I hate my bf for making me feel insignificant and encouraging it and not recognizing that backsliding for me is dangerous. (I started with the BED (though I didn't identify it as an issue at the time) when I was 14. I know that the blame is fully with myself and that I have to accept responsibility, but in my head, I sitll blame my mother so much for it. She would constantly remind me how ugly I was and how fat and how she was thin and her mother were thin and didn't I want to be pretty like they were. That's when the binging started. When I was 16, she noticed that I was steadily gaining weight and depressed. At that point, she introduced me to purging. She had done it when she was young and thought it would be a good dieting method for me. It was during the summer, so she would watch me and make me sit with her all day and sleep on her bedroom floor. She would lead me into the bathroom to purge daily and check to see if it looked like it matched when I should ahve eaten that day. The only time to myself was when I was in the complex's gym and I would binge at those times many days. When she saw evidence of a binge, she would lock me the closet for a day and make sure that I didn't eat and rant about how it was a betrayal of her trust.)

She passed away when I was 18 and yet I still blame her. It was only binging and depression for a couple years after that, but then a guy started liking me and I started again so that I would be prettier. When ever I backslide, I blame her. It still links in my mind that this is how I make myself a better person, a prettier girl and someone deserving. I know that I will never get fully better until I stop it. I've been stable that last few years. Since the bf and I have been worse and fighting more and he's been literally throwing food at me and telling me to have at it and that maybe if I engorge myself enough, I'll be as ugly on the outside as I am on the inside. He'll come back later and apologize, but I'm starting to hate him and feel trapped with him and I don't know.

I know that he's baiting me. Yet, I do it everytime. I keep on doing it. The worse it's gotten the more I have and the last few months, I started purging again.

This is mostly me just ranting and probably not a good route to take, but I just feel trapped and stupid and many more negative things which would take far too long to list.

Replies

  • estitom
    estitom Posts: 205 Member
    What a terrible way to take care of ones child... I understand that you blame her. Remember that it's perfectly okay to be angry at her for what she did and recognize that what she did was bad, and still claim responsibility. (As much responsibility as you can with a mental illness, that is.)

    Your boyfriends behavior can't be excused though. Seriously, my boyfriend has been with me since I was at my sickest and he has never used it against me in an argument. Never. He has made mistakes of course but he has never attempted to trigger me like that. You don't have to stand that behavior!
  • doitforreal
    doitforreal Posts: 1 Member
    The truth of the matter is no matter how much things are caused by our own decisions we do not exist as islands, everything we do is linked to some experience and our environment so i agree with the above post that it is ok for you to blame her.

    In fact in this case it is actually partly down to her actually physically teaching you to purge and punishing you for binging that it has now become a coping mechanism. However it is also important to take charge of your future. what your mother did was in the past so whether it is down to her or not you now have an opportunity to change yourself. I know it can be hard but it is important to try to stop looking back and concentrate on what is ahead.

    Also your boyfriends behaviour is shocking. Personal experience has taught me that people like that are not worthy of the position of boyfriend. please be careful and don't let him destroy your life.
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