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It's not something I talk about because I did love my brother and I feel like I'm betraying his memory.

It wasn't his fault either. He was abused by his horrendous mother and it was like he was doing the same thing to me. He used to beat me with sticks and as I got a bit older his mother would tell him to abuse me in front of people to humiliate me (I can ...

I don't remember any specific incident. And I had left it at that for the longest time.

But I remember having vivid sexual dreams involving myself and adults when I was around 6. It would be very triggering for me to describe them in detail. But suffice to say they involve "correct" prescient knowledge of some adult sexual activity, even though I was never exposed to that kind of information.

Whenever I had those dreams ...

I apologize if this topic has been spoken about many times before. I'm just feeling a little insecure about my abuse as a child, and was hoping for a bit of validation that I was, indeed, abused. I'd also like advice on what to do when I start questioning my abuse, if others have felt this way and if so what do you guys do about it?

I often feel my abuse is nothing compared ...

If you were physically abused or emotionally manipulated it can be triggering. Maybe be careful about any plans you have for after the movie and maybe have some safe stuff lined up.

Many may have no problems but one scene had me close to tears.

Take care guys, but an amazing movie. Will be seeing it again.

Writing for another member of our system (Zami) who is currently unable to write.

They are the one carrying all the trauma-related memories, and the consequences of the gaslight surrounding said traumatic events. They fight the gaslight effects every single day, to the point of sometimes regretting they had EMDR to remove some of the PTSD effects - because without the daily intrusive memories, they don't have any "proof" it really happened therefore, the "you ...

I usually try to keep my own junk out of here, but today has not been a great one and my own dear wife gets triggered if I talk at home. She is also a survivor - but I also know that talking about my childhood causes her great pain - so I try to keep it to myself. Sound familiar guys and girls.

The" egg donor" is now 95. A short stooped overweight woman ...

I feel that throughout my childhood I was abused by my parents and elder brother, as wel as putting up with bullying from friends, classmates and teachers.

What I want to konw is if I overreact or what I construe to have been abuse was just 'tough love' or discipline?

Both of my parents were highly intellectual people, not very much in tune with their emotions. We never talked about emotions. I was born 6 ...

I was emotionally and psychologically abused by my grandmother for my entire life, so much so where I don’t remember all but 3 years of my life, spare a few snippets here and there. I didn’t realize this was abuse until about 3 months ago. I used to spend pretty much all of my time with her, as I came from a dysfunctional family. She convinced me that she was pretty much a saint, along ...

I was abused by both of my parents starting from the age of 5. My father had an affair with his secretary and left my family for that bitch. My mother blamed me for his actions and tortured me growing up. I was the scapegoat for everything wrong in her life, because to her I was just like my father. I have his name and his face. My mother spoiled my little brother rotten and ...

Hi, I have a favor to ask you. I am 19 years old girl and I am currently in lot of pain. I am mentally ill a lot. I suffer from depression, anxiety, self-harming, suicidal thoughts, social phobia and mainly from conversion disorder which caused me to be restricted to bed rest for two years now. Please, would you be so kind and read my life story and give me your opinion if I was ...