Please forgive me for whining, but I could really use some support right now. Part of what's bothering me is that today is my one-year anniversary, and my husband is about 600 miles away. We have no plans to see each other anytime soon--he can't get away from work, and I'm not up to driving the kids up to see him.
What's really bothering me is something my mom said to me today. We were going into a restaurant for lunch and she asked me to leave my cane in the car. She said that I really didn't need it, because all of my problems are in my head.
I told her I must be a great psychic if I can alter x-rays.
This is really bothering me. I've grown up being told any illness was all in my head--for the clinical depression and dozen suicide attempts I'll even agree. I ignored my pain for years because I was so used to thinking of myself as someone who would unconsciously fake an illness. Hearing those words now, from one of the few people I have every right to expect to support me in dealing with all this crap, is just tearing me up. It doesn't help that I've heard her express similar sentiments about me when talking with her friends.
How the frell am I supposed to deal with those kinds of comments?
