Was it her fault I developed an eating disorder?!?!
Question: I suffered from bulimia for over three years. It started when I was 13 when I began doing ballet professionally and one of my ballet teachers would constantly call me fat or "porky pig". I was probably 4'11 or 4'10 and about 95 pounds. Ballet was my life (it still is). After about a month of name callings I'd skip lunch or sometimes eat an energy bar, and when I turned 14 I started eating paper in substitute of eating food, and I'd weigh myself constantly keeping track of every pound I lost .My mom never really noticed anything because she had five other kids to worry about, and my dad was almost ALWAYS on a business trip. At that time I was the same height and about 90 pounds. At 14 I would through up everything I ate, take laxatives, diet pills, basically anything to loose weight. I looked like a skeleton. I was so weak I couldn't even concentrate, but I was satisfied my ballet teacher stopped calling me porky pig and fat and started calling me her "star" performer. I was 5'2 and 80
Answers: I suffered from bulimia for over three years. It started when I was 13 when I began doing ballet professionally and one of my ballet teachers would constantly call me fat or "porky pig". I was probably 4'11 or 4'10 and about 95 pounds. Ballet was my life (it still is). After about a month of name callings I'd skip lunch or sometimes eat an energy bar, and when I turned 14 I started eating paper in substitute of eating food, and I'd weigh myself constantly keeping track of every pound I lost .My mom never really noticed anything because she had five other kids to worry about, and my dad was almost ALWAYS on a business trip. At that time I was the same height and about 90 pounds. At 14 I would through up everything I ate, take laxatives, diet pills, basically anything to loose weight. I looked like a skeleton. I was so weak I couldn't even concentrate, but I was satisfied my ballet teacher stopped calling me porky pig and fat and started calling me her "star" performer. I was 5'2 and 80
well first i would like to say i hope your recovery is going well and second i do think that her calling you names has alot to do with it but i think that your family could also be contributing to it because you said that your father was always out of town and to have a father who's never around can be devistating (of all people i should know) and you said your mother has 5 other kids to worry about so maybe sometimes you feel leftout (my mother has 3 other kids and i sometimes too feel left out) but i think that yes she should take some of the blame but not all of it. And dont forget you are what ONLY you believe you are
Yeah she was a contributing factor but you could have lost some weight healthily or simply ignored her.