I've been unwell with long Covid for about 3 months now. My employer is being relatively kind and understanding, but my family are just destroying my mental health at the moment.

It started out that they were just tired of me being unwell, so after the first week I was ill, they had decided that was enough, and started telling me "get over it now, just be better now it's been long enough".

That talk from them started to subside at least a little bit after a few weeks, and because I live about 3 hours away from them, they weren't getting to me too much. 

My mum came to visit me for my birthday over the past few days, and she was criticising everything about my house (WHICH I KEEP CLEAN AND HAVE GREAT PRIDE IN), and she made me go out and walk for miles and miles while still unwell on my birthday. I thought that I would feel better once she left, but as soon as she went home, she told my dad that I had become fat.

My dad then phoned me today crying because I'm fat and ugly. He constantly tells me to go out and give him grandkids, and he goes on and on about how I should move to live just down the road from him. Being told that I'm fat now has just given him more ammunition to try and make me change my whole life to how he wants me to live it. I dread the day he finds out I'm not fully straight.

He says he's going to phone me even more often now to make sure that I've been losing weight. And my mum is going to visit me again in a few weeks too because of this, and he's then going to visit me in September. 

I moved away so I could have my independence and live my life the way I want to. And they seem dead set on tearing it all down.

I've spent the past 2 hours inside my own head. I hate this so much. I've been having money troubles too, and all this talk about my weight has just made me lie on the floor and look online at exercise equipment I can't afford, and gym memberships that I can't afford, and will struggle to use because I just don't want to see other people.

Today was supposed to be a good day. I was supposed to make cakes today. That's not happening now I guess.