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my own parent ruined me. all her manipulation. it was all lies, all lies.
she would wail after dad died n make a drama. like a fool me and brother at different times would rush to pharmacy to get some sleeping pill for her.
i would rush home from office, from meeting with friends after she'd wail on phone n do drama n act as if someone is tormenting her.
it was all an act. ...

I was molested by two priests as a child. Most of the details are hazy, but I had to of have been in the first to third grade. I went to a Catholic middle school. I don't how often it happened, but I vividly remember one time.

I'm in my thirties now... I dont know if I should bother telling my family. My parents prided themselves on sending my sister and I to a private ...

all my life i have craved for validation, attention from others. a beggar of validation. mom was always strict. she would scold us for stuff as using the toilet.
it was madness
she has blurted that one must manipulate n emotional blackmail others.

recently we went to a wedding, where mom's childish expression made me feel sad for her. and also for myself. that i got such a family.
at wedding i had eaten my ...

Hi all,

I'm not sure where to start, and how to end, considering the state of the forum and the chance if someone coming across this topic. I think my childhood wasn't that good considering the person that I am. I usually say that it is, even in therapy, but my mother was physical with my brother and I
Mostly with him. I think the main thing with me is that I was emotionally neglected, ...

my caretaker said the other day: one must do stuff to get whatever they want be it manipulation, brainwash.

she said it nonchalantly. as a matter of fact. something she's neither proud of, nor ashamed of. just as something one must do to get stuff.

earlier also she had said stuff like: i am used to indulge in emotional blackmail. dont take me seriously.

but after the recent comment, i feel sad. just sad.
i ...

i dont want to be happy. it feels like betraying my past.
any step i take toward a future(new friendship) feels like step away from past n the hope that i change it.
i dont want to stop mourning my past. i dont want to bury the dead body of my past

Hi, I am new to the forum and my first post. I have been troubled by something I observed over the holiday. In short, I am a SA survivor at the hands of my Bio Father. This was many years ago and long story short, I have all the leftover scars THUS, I may be hypersensitive to other children's experiences.

My SIL is VERY aggressive with my grands. He forces them to hug him all ...

Hello, this is something I thought would be worth sharing as it might help myself and others who went through similar experiences to make sense of things better.

I am currently 23, male, chiming in from Asia. I've been officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but I also struggle greatly with OCD, and my most prominent issue is aggresive thoughts and urges - which I can keep under check for the most part. Lately I've been ...

I was abused throughout childhood in many ways. She was really, really good at it. She used her education to superb effect. Discussing it is humiliating. This was the strategy to begin with, I think (that is, that make the abuse as difficult to mediate as possible).

Advice?

Monday last week my mother finally passed on. She was cremated two days later with no service and no family present, no acknowledgement she had ever lived. I received the phone call at 10.25pm from the nursing home, and I guessed I moved into some state of disassociation soon after. Possibly lasted until four or five days later. Found myself over working here at home and becoming more and more exhausted. This culminated in a ...