I soooo understand! There are lots of things in my childhood that I look back on and can connect how I was treated then with how things affect me now as an adult. Not only with my IBS, but with why I have anxiety about certain things, why I get so upset about certain things, etc. When I think back to those times, it makes me so mad. And yet, when I was a kid, I thought I had such a great life and great family....and I did....but boy did my parents go wrong in a lot of ways that really affected me since I was such a shy person. For instance....If your child is shy, don't tell everyone "oh, she won't do that, she's too shy." Encourage her to do something! Don't say, "she got the large calves and legs from me." (I've been self concious of my legs my whole life because of that! I don't even wear shorts in public. I'm not even overweight and I hate showing my legs) Don't tell your child as the family leaves for a road trip to Canada, that once we get to the border "you kids have to get your shots updated." and then laugh. It took three days to get to the border of Canada. I was in the second grade and scared to death about reaching the border and having to get shots. We got to the border. Went through Customs. Started driving away and my parents were laughing their heads off at how scared I was! It's no wonder I have anxiety attacks now as an adult and I was scared of doctors and dentists!! (I'm crying now as I write this!) Bringing back too many memories that wouldn't have affected some people at all, but I've carried these little things with me through my 39 years and I'm sick of it!!! I had terrible headaches as a kid. My mom was a smoker and I always told her the smoke bothered me. "Oh it does not!" she'd say. She took me to the eye doctor to see if maybe my eyes were causing my headaches. Everything was fine. She took me to the doctor. He gave me some neck relaxing exercises to ease my headaches. No allergy tests or anything were ordered. So I suffered with headaches until I moved away to go to college. Once I got away from the cigarette smoke, the headaches stopped. I told her that and she felt bad but didn't quit smoking until I kept bugging her to quit when I got out of college. She finally did. (I need to go back to Pikes Peak and scream at the top of my lungs again)
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