Her mother constantly tells her "You're fine, You dont Need help." and if that doesnt sound like enabling i dont know what does.
I guess what I mean is that her mom didn't just consciously decide one day to enable her daughter. She's seriously fucked up in her own way and probably not capable of seeing that there's a problem. Her mom didn't wake up one day thinking, "Oh, well, Eugenia is skeletal and refusing to eat, but whatever. She'd ask for help if she wanted it, so fuck it. Hey, I wonder what's on the boob tube." Eugenia's illness itself is a symptom of a deeply dysfunctional family.
People who are familiar with 12 step addiction recovery programs will probably be familiar with the saying,
you're only as sick as your secrets. For someone to get as sick as Eugenia is, there have to be a lot of horrifying family secrets that most outsiders will never be aware of. She's not the only dysfunctional, sick member of her family. None of them have the insight to recognize that there is something seriously wrong.
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I'm not absolving her mother or anyone else of responsibility for the role they've played here. Eugenia didn't just become this way overnight. I also think that it's possible that one or both of her parents realizes on some level that if Eugenia is really sick, there might be something amiss with all of them, so it feels safer not to even acknowledge it. Seeking treatment for Eugenia's illness would likely have meant that all of the members of the family had to work through some serious, difficult, painful issues, both individually and together. That's hard work, and a lot of people aren't capable of doing it. Instead, they just
act like everything is fine until they sort of become convinced that maybe, if they squint at it the right way under the proper lighting, it really
is fine, and if it's not, maybe it's not actually that bad, and it'll go away by itself.