"you're a great big girl"
Reality check: Psychiatrists are supposed to help, right??? With a combination of pills and thoughtful discussion, they're supposed to make you better. When you share that you are feeling particularly bad about yourself, they're not supposed to respond thusly:
"Ashley, you're a great big girl!" ...Dead silent pause... "If you look at what's been considered attractive throughout history, it's big women. When I was growing up in South Africa, all the black men LOVED big women...."
At that point, my eyes were stinging and my face was stinging, and I got that whip-it feeling in my head where everything's all "wah wah wah" except over that I was hearing "you're a great big girl!" over and over.
NOTE: he did not mean you're a terrific big girl, or a fantastic big girl. He meant you are a very large female.
Sigh. You know the phrase "We're gonna need a bigger boat"? Well, "We're gonna need some bigger pills." (Eddie Izzard head shake. Eddie Izzard nod. Eddie Izzard shake. Eddie Izzard nod.)
posted at 8:13 PM
1 Comments:
So many good posts. Have to decide which one to respond to.
1) Hollywood Tape rocks. It will make anything you're wearing stay in place. It's like duct tape in a cute pink box.
2) My mom's father-in-law used to greet my mom by loudly proclaiming, "You look like you're picking up a little!" (i.e. putting on weight). Being a farmer, he thought that was the ultimate compliment since it meant you were doing well enough to eat your own produce and still had money left over to buy other people's products. Since that's not exactly how the Navy works, Mom was mortified. Did your shrink formerly counsel livestock, perhaps? Roosters with performance anxiety issues?
3) The bra-shopping story is wonderful and tragic; glad you shared it. 36DDDD? You're a Superheroine, dahling. And for when you need the sports bra, Title Nine does an AMAZING review system that tells you how much compression you can expect from a sports bra and in what fashion (i.e. you're going to feel like you're getting a mammogram while wearing this but guaranteed no bouncing when you run!).
And just generally {{{}}}. Is good to keep up with y'all from a distance. :)
8:04 PM, December 04, 2006
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