Hi, when my mum was 8 years old she was anorexic and continued to be until 22 years old. She then switched from anorexia to alcoholism and prostitution. And now she is an exercsie addict and is an anorexic bulimic and is addicted to exercise. She had me when she was 20 and had split up with my dad, but her other boyfriend (my sister's dad) used to beat her up and I remember some of it. I always used to see men walk in and out of the house and knew something wasn't right. I kept on finding dirty texts on her phone and confronted her about them but she always told me that I was "being childish and attention seeking". Anyway finally I checked her phone and found the link to a website, I looked on that website and it turned out she had been advertising her services on it. I phoned my gran and grandad about it and we had a family meeting about it and then my uncle and gran went over to her house (me and my sister had just moved out because of what was happening) and mum got really angry and started vigourously scraping a huge kitchen knife a huge kitchen knife up and down her arm and she got a cricket bat and wrecked the whole house. She then took an overdose of paracetamol and had three cardiac arrests (she survived). Anyway I didn't speak to her for about 1 month and a half and then I went to see her in hospital and it was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. She was in a self-induced coma and all the cuts and bruises and scars of where she had harmed herself were really obvious. After this I went to meetings with her therapist to organise what he best route for her to take would be since it had also been discovered that she was an alcoholic and we put her into rehab where she was for 2 and a half months. She tried to escape and she had multiple personailites which often got the better of her. She came out of rehab with anorexia bulimia two months later and my sibling also has a weight problem (but the opposite of Mum's) and my gran has got depression and my sister's father is verbally abusive to her and she doesn't get along with his boyfriend. I hate my dad because he blames me for everything and his wife slags off mum in front of me. I am now 17 and have been the adult in the family for the past 7 years. I have had enough and I don't like the person it has turned me into (controlling, suspicious, untrusting). I want to tell mum to grow up and sort her life out and sort my sibling's weight out. I have warned her so many times but she never does anything because she always says "if you take even more of control from me I will kill myself". I just don't know what to do. I want to go somewhere but there is something that is keeping me at home looking after my family. I wish I could just leave it all behind.
