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My family is generally very supportive of me. My IBS I have realized seems to more due to stress than my actual diet. I am seeing that a lot of the stress comes from family and trying to please them instead of myself. However when I explain to them that they need to be a little more sensitive with what they say to me, they act like I don't know what I am talking about, that I take things the wrong way and they don't have anything to do with it. Could that be true? Am I just blaming them for my own shortcomings in dealing with this? For example, they say that there are other more important things to be upset about than the actual dumb things that work me up into a frenzy. I know that of course, but when they say that it makes me feel even worse for getting worked up over the dumb things (if that makes sense). Any advice? I'm trying to ignore my inner voice which happens to be them a lot of the time, but it's hard to undo the years of conditioning.