Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | is my job damning me, and my mom is terrified!

already posted 2 questions today..heres a couple more.
I am a manager at a collection agencie, my job is nothing but stress. i manage 30 collection agents, have a boss that loves to be the good guy so if he sees someone doing something wrong, he acts buddy buddy with them, and runs to tell me that they are doing something wrong and makes me do the dirty work. He is the owners son, so it makes my employees think that since he seemed fine with it, then i am just on a power trip!! also, the main part of my job is to keep fully staffed, which is difficult when the turn over rate at a job like this is sky high (due to the nature of the job and stress that it brings!!) i am constantly interviewing, hiring, training, taking calls from irate customers that one of my agents pissed off, learning about and updating procedures for all the changing laws, not to mention dealing with goals and quota's during Christmas is fun too, when most people would rather go all out on presents than pay their past due bills.. i came into this position this last Feb 06 when the last manager got fired.. every day of my life is gauranteed to be stressful. do you think i am doomed?? is it my job that is making this worse?

My 2nd part of this epic drama, is that i just barely started trying to explain the severity of this to my mom. She is a nurse, and very protective. I have always been very skinny, she always used to think i was anorexic but i have never been. i love food! cant get enough of it! but today (after she tricked me into going to the mall with her and it brought on some anxiety) i began telling her about the ibs diet. i dont know much about it yet, but she was insanely worried that restricting my diet is going to make me lose weight and i wont be getting enouch protein or nutrients.. i am 24, 5'2 and 110lbs. which isnt that skinny to me, just petite. although shes a nurse, i dont think she really understands my frustration anyway, and her being frustrated with me about watching what i eat doesnt help.. how can i reassure her, and what protein can i eat? i am waiting on my starter kit, im sure that will help answer alot, but from the break the cycle diet..seems like not much protein, if any! oh yes, and by the way..i also get hypoglycemic, and have to balance protein and carbs and eat several times a day, otherwise i get shakey, and of course ANXIETY!! these past few days i have only been eating rice and crackers and sometimes tryign to slip in peanuts or peanut butter. today i had a slice of combo pizza and felt an attack coming on at work so i had to load up on immodium! i was very disappointed in myself..

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