So, something traumatic happens to you and instead of grieving that and going through that process, you stuff all those feelings in, you hide behind the mask of emotional strength, you keep taking care of
everybody else, you keep working, and then you start engaging in self - medicating
behaviors: you start binge - eating, you put a lot of focus
on your physical appearance, you do a lot of makeup, hair, clothing, compulsive shopping, you start picking up these other health problems associated with these
behaviors.
All day
everybody was
on their worst
behavior - temper tantrums, no naps, food all over the floor, disobedience, multiple time - outs, and you swore you heard yourself tell your 15 month old «wait until your father gets home!»