Today, going to my psychiatrist's appointment for my PTSD and depression, my mother yelled about how useless I am and how I torture her existence with my "abnormalities." She told the doctor how much I've improved and become such a delight at home for her and our family. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my mother threw a fit because the psychologist she got me suggested I visit a psychiatrist. Apparently, it's my fault because I "choose" to be so "crazy". FML
Today, I finally convinced my mum to take me to a psychologist. As soon as he sat me down and asked me how I was doing, my mum burst into tears and went on a rant about how her life is terrible and she regrets everything. I was asked to sit in the waiting room. She used up my whole hour. FML
Today, I had my first therapy session for the issues caused by trying to please my overbearing, paranoid, self-centred mother. The first thing she did after we started driving home? Ranting at me and demanding to know if I'd been "talking shit" about her to my therapist FML
Today, my mom read my diary. Then she frantically booked me an appointment with a psychiatrist. FML
Today, my shrink diagnosed me as severely depressive, due to a lot of stress and yells at home. After the session, my parents argued about whose fault it was and then went on to yell at me for being depressive and wasting their money. FML
Today, my mom got pissed off at my doctor and called him a quack. She did this because he reassured her that I don't show any signs of the mental retardation that she's convinced herself I must have. FML
Today, I had to sit and listen in mortification as my mother tearfully told our therapist how much sleep she loses over my being morbidly obese. She doesn't seem to care that I'm body positive and happy with the way I am. FML
Today, my mom found out I’m in therapy and took it as an insult, like therapy was a criticism of her parenting. Um, maybe if she hadn’t spent my childhood telling me and everyone in our family that having me was an accident, that I’ve been a huge burden, and that she should have aborted me. FML
Today, I finally got to a point where I could ask my mother about how enthusiastically she used to beat me. First sentence out of her mouth was, "It didn't change your behaviour, but it did make me feel better." FML
Today, my mother told me to 'quit having a pity party'. I was just diagnosed with depression. I've lost my boyfriend, my job, my academic standing, and I just got rejected from every graduate school I applied for. And my mother thinks I'm a cry baby. Great. FML
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Alup132 22
She says that so that your psychiatrist will say that you’re well, and either ask you not to come, or so that your mom can use they against you.
Jackey 29
Is she the cause of your PTSD?
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Comments (11)
RichardPencil 32
Some people don’t want to wash their dirty laundry in public.
DrSamba 7
That's not in public. The psychiatrist is legally prohibited from disclosing anything unless there is danger of someone being harmed. And the shrink can't help you if you tell them everything's fine, or why would you be there in the first place?
RichardPencil 32
In this context, anyone who is not in the family is considered "public." There are even cases where nuclear families need to withhold things from their extended family. I agree that lying to a shrink is pointless.
Alup132 22
She says that so that your psychiatrist will say that you’re well, and either ask you not to come, or so that your mom can use they against you.
AmbrosiaFan 19
Ugh... Sorry to hear that. Is there somewhere else you could stay who actually supports you?
Jackey 29
Is she the cause of your PTSD?
Magtec 11
Sounds like you may have found the cause of your depression and PTSD. Make sure to tell your doctor what is happening. You can find support here - https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists
jbuckets_404 39
OP oughta record her mom's various statements/ opinions for conveyance to OP's psychiatrist so as to identify / develop an adequate plan of treatment incl'g for increasing self-esteem and blunting/ counseling mom's negativity. Good luck, OP! :-)
msfilmmark 9
This sounds kinda like an ex friend of mine...