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I grew up in a bad household. My parents beat up each other severely, my dad was an alcoholic who cheated on my mother, and she was a very angry person.

As a child, I was mostly hit by her. she pinched me a lot, and one day left a bruise on my arm that was really big.I remember having to lie to people at my school about how I got it.

I'm 16 now ...

Hey guys, I'm just wondering why it seems some people can compensate and achieve despite being (severely) abused and yet others (such as me) seem to shut down and get frozen?

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get myself back on track after taking some time to stop dissociating from the world and try to process the things that happened to me. I've been perusing PF here and reading some of the ...

Hello all-

This is my first post on this site, and my reason for joining. I'm Renee, and I came here because I really don't have anyone in my life to talk to about these things. I'm 20 years old and in worried about my mental health, and while I've always assumed im this strong person who can't possibly be brought down by mental issues, I don't think that's the case anymore. I want to ...

Literally for as long as I can remember I have been obsessed with the subject of abuse. I remember playing games involving abuse. My parents used to always complain about me playing "so violent" with my toys. I was never abused. I grew up in a relatively decent household. when I was little my parents would fight a lot. Nothing physically violent. Lots of screaming and my dad would throw things. But no one ever ...

Take this typical bad parenting scenario...
A child with anger issues who has a hard time controlling their temper. He has frequent tantrums, almost daily, they last for hours. Parents send the child to his room where he gets worse and worse. The parents think they are leaving him to calm down but they are just isolating him and making him feel unloved. The child loses control of himself, and the parents have no control ...

So my boyfriend was seriously abused as a kid by his alcoholic father, physically and emotionally. His back is COVERED in scars from what looks like whipping, thick indented horizontal ones. There's at least 20 of them, they go all the way down his back. I know he was also hit, and there's other things I wonder about - he has a deviated septum and another scar on his forehead. His father was also physically ...

Hi, I'm new here, so I hope this is the right place to post - sorry if it isn't!

I've recently started to realize that my dad may be more controlling than the average parent, and that some of what he says may even count as verbal abuse. It's something I've been having a really hard time coming to terms with, especially because there really wasn't anything as obvious as physical abuse, and I don't ...

My father strangled me, my mother would emotionally abuse me, my father would physically hurt me to punish me and my mother would neglect me and both of them were always away or would punish me for disturbing them. I would get beaten everyday at school and come home and my parents would punish me for 'fighting back' or 'starting fights' when I did neither.

Not only that, I don't remember most of my childhood ...

My mum is so nice to me, she supports me when I tell her about my anxiety and she isn't a strict parent in terms of me having friends over and such. However, when she gets angry, she's very angry, and has never hurt me physically but she shouts curses and calls me bad things, also she makes me feel guilty, to the point that I'm beginning to suspect maybe I am just being rude ...

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Hi everyone,

So basically, I'm a 22 year old and I am here because I suffered long standing childhood abuse. This has lead me to have now severe problems with my cognitive development. I have been officially diagnosed with PTSD, and now Schizoid Personality Disorder. I am trying to find ways to catch up developmentally before my neurological pathways are set into stone. ...