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24 Aug 2017 10:13 PM
24 Aug 2017 10:13 PM
I think it's the fact that you feel no control in your life @outlander, especially with your Mum today that's troubling you,not the moles.Im going to let you sleep now and I feel for @MDT too as I understand how it feels.
Talk tomorrow 🙋
24 Aug 2017 10:19 PM
24 Aug 2017 10:19 PM
25 Aug 2017 08:17 AM
25 Aug 2017 08:17 AM
@outlander@Former-Member@MDT@Sans911@soul
25 Aug 2017 09:30 AM
25 Aug 2017 09:30 AM
25 Aug 2017 10:24 AM
25 Aug 2017 10:24 AM
25 Aug 2017 10:38 AM
25 Aug 2017 10:38 AM
Hi @outlander
I didn't read your whole thread - I am using a public computer in Sydney and I have limited time
But still - I got a few things to comment on
1. It has to be extremely aggravating to be told to get a life when you already have one and you are doing your best with it. I understand that - you can only work with what you already have and maybe it's your work in this life to relate to older people and that has to be a good thing
2. And you have made a sound decision with your horse - that one was not a good investment but hey - how much you have learned with that one - this can only help with your future
3. At your age you do need your own space - I had to share a room for a short time when I was around your age and I round it really horrible - my sister and I fought like cats about the most stupid things - but I felt she had been moved into my room and hey - it was not my fault my parents were trying to fit 6 people into such a small house - and yeah - your mother needs to get a life and a better house -
Hold on tight there - I don't know what to suggest
4. You still have your job in spite of giving the horse back - you are a hard and reliable worker obviously - you are a valuable employee and this is all working in your favour
I will be home tomorrow afternoon and able to use my own computer - all the best
Dec
25 Aug 2017 02:22 PM
25 Aug 2017 02:22 PM
@Maggie thank you
@Former-Member it went ok I think.... good and bad bits but the days not over yet
@Former-Member thank you for letting me know, I know your studying this sort of thing too so thank you for your input. It means a lot.
I know its unlikely that itll progress further but my nan had this as well so its got me really worried that itll progress as someone in my family had it.
Its the waiting part thats getting to me. I dont like this waiting for a whole year to see if its gone or not. thats the scary part
25 Aug 2017 02:32 PM
25 Aug 2017 02:32 PM
oh are you in sydney? I hope your having a great time there
1. it really is frustrating. Its even more frustrating when I go out and then people complain I have a life. I dont seem to win in either scenario so im trying to just do the best I can with what I have and can do.
2. If I had of been told the truth about that horses injury in the first palce that would have told me not to take her and pretty much confirmed my fears of a tendon injury which makes her a paddock ornament. Im thinking this was a blessing in disguise as I get to keep my job and ill be saving. Saving for a new horse and im also saving to be able to do a few courses that I wanted to do bu never ha the money to be able to enrol in them.
3. yeah the room that im sharing with my sisters will be my room when they move out. Even as a younger girl it was always 'my' room and was always refferred to as mine and now in that room the only evidence im there is the bed covers ive picked. Its been many times where ive had one box in the room and everything of my sisters gets pilled on top so I chuck it back off. Msg still isnt clear because they still keep doing it. My cupboards on the top are full of their crap as well.
4. yes thank god ive still got my job. Its letting me have that extra cash and allows me to save more too.
25 Aug 2017 02:40 PM
25 Aug 2017 02:40 PM
25 Aug 2017 02:44 PM
25 Aug 2017 02:44 PM
Hi @outlander
Yes - I am in sydney - I am going home tomorrow and I have been having a great time - I feel I haven't been here long enough
Sometimes when people tell us to get a life it's because our life isn't what they think is a life worth having - I have spend a lifetime getting my life the way I like it and now I have - but thinking back it has been a works-in-progess and I have had a lot of stuff happen along the way
I had the dining room in our house from a few years - but when our Gran got sick my sister moved in with me and I found this to really be the living pits - she wanted the blind down and the window shut and for years I had the blind up and the window open - and yeah - I get it - my sister was into my stuff all the time - no privacy - you are the eldest and at your age need your own space - yeak - I really feel for you - now I have a whole place to myself and I like life this way
The world is full of first-born people and first-born people are often achievers - but we are our parents' experiments and this can be a hard thing to live up to - okay - nuf sed - your sisters' manage to crap your life up in so many ways - I think you have the top bunk without stairs to climb up as well - no floor space for your bed either - really piss-poor - I get it
I'm so glad you have your job - and you are working so your mother has no valid reason to complain - but of course - she will - she needs to move out
I care
Dec
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