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I am closing down my business which I have run for 41 years. Yes I am that old. I will be writing a book soon, maybe publish it or just put it online. It made me think about my life and of course my mother whose actions formed my life. When I started my practice as a public accountant my wife and I were broke, I had just been fired for the fourth time in ...

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So to start, we were an only child growing up. Always very lonely. so one was the places our parents would take me to "play" was my cousins. I was often left there while our parents needed to do things. However they are not nice people.

I was treated like a toy by my cousins. Made to dress up and played with like a doll. Treated like an animal and fed like one. ...

A local online news source was doing something on Child abuse and they got in touch. I sent them a synopsis first, with obvious questions and answers, like: "why did you not run away ?" It cuts down the early questions and lets them draw their focus.

It was very interesting, had some expected consequences (first nightmare in a year and a half - they have morphed and although troubling they do not terrify like ...

my mom called me ugly when i was little i think she did it to hurt me what should i do ?

I believe it is possible, but what do the rest of you think? Often the things I read about abuse is that it is intentional, maybe even premeditated. And while I definitely agree that there are a lot of abusers that know what they are doing and do it on purpose to control others, I also think there are many abusers who aren't aware that what they are doing is considered abuse. Maybe they do ...

I'm not sure whether this is a normal thing or not, but just in case, I wanted to include a trigger warning because I don't want to upset anyone if this is abusive. Also, I may end up deleting this before the time to do so runs out so if it vanishes that's why.

I don't want to be graphic about this at all because it does gross me out a bit. Basically, I've had ...

This is my first time posting here.

I'm now 46 years old and still reassure myself every day in order to know that I'm not crazy- because my entire childhood whenever I tried to communicate about the things that were hurting me I was treated as crazy. And unfortunately that effort to protect myself- that effort to reassure myself- actually made me crazy. It is a curse to constantly have to reassure myself that I'm ...

Can be tough for a lot of us as it can bring back painful memories or force us to play happy families with our abusers and enablers, but to all of us here, I hope you get through it okay, I hope there is something special you can enjoy and let's all hope for a better new year.

(and now to copy and paste this in Domestic and sex abuse)

See you all after Christmas

This has been on my mind for a while since I recently found a picture of my former stepfather on the internet. My mother divorced my father (a wonderful man) when I was four. She quickly remarried my first stepfather. They argued all the time and divorced after 3 years. Step #2 was nice to us kids but was physically abusive to my mother. After the divorce, my mother married stepdad #3 when I was ...

Lyrics from a song I have just plagiarized however as some of you know my little obsession is "child abuse Cushings syndrome -- yes it does exist - just look at me from crying out loud, human bodies don't look like mine without a reason.

Okay got that off my chest - now for the laughs ..

This is a quote from a scientific study of children with Cushings Syndrome, which is actually very rare. ...