Dear Katie:

It will take some time and effort to explore this one sentence (“my family was also inferior”). I have time and patience, and will be asking you questions. If you have the time and patience and are willing, we can proceed.

You wrote about your mother, “She would complain about how none of the other moms like her…other moms being rude to my mom…my mom used to tell me about how she went through bullying because of her weight…my mom was bullied verrryyy badly”.

Reads to me that your mother expressed to you a lot how she was bullied as a child and how she is still bullied, as an adult (by the other moms). Will you tell me more about what she shared with you, regarding being bullied as a child and as an adult? How often did she share with you how other people mistreat her, disrespect her and so on?

(This is a note to myself, a quote from your recent post that I want to attend to later, following your next reply: “I constantly felt like everyone disliked my family…Maybe I saw this as something in my genes. Like I was born to be chubby and to be inferior… I felt inferior because I couldn’t concentrate like other kids”)

anita