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I grew up with what I've come to realize are pretty emotionally and occasionally physically abusive parents, but I don't know how to get myself out of my situation. I was taught at a very early age that children do not deserve respect and are here to serve their parents. I was always told that I didn't have a home, but was just a guest in theirs. I always loved going to school as a ...

My sister was abused by our stepmother over a period of years , insidious behaviours like crumbing biscuits in her bed, hiding clothing, telling her her father would die if she didnt behave .. this is after hef own mother died when she wad 7.this affected her behaviour and our father kicked her out as a teenager, this abuser has manipulsted our father agsinst his family , he has cut his 3 daughters and hus ...

Got an email from ex wife that 2 yo son hurt his knee and went to the doctor. Ex wife says she doesn't know what happened. My 11 yo daughter says she *thinks* she hurt him while they were playing. Son says "mom hurt me". Ex has history of being violent with me. My gut says there's more to the story, but what if I'm wrong? I need help or advice please...

I need to get this off my chest. I don't know where to start so... First of all I'm male and 25.

Oh and before anyone tries to tell me "repressed memories aren't real", I have my reasons to believe they're real so let's just not argue about that.

So I've had nightmares about things before that I don't have any conscious memories of. Being held down, and being choked with someone's hand (a man's ...

Hello, I am new here, I am wondering on how do you go about figuring out if you WERE abused as a child?
Here is my story: *trigger warning*

All I remember is I was 10 years old, eating out with my mom, her friend, and her friend's new older boyfriend *maybe a 5-10 year difference, he just looked alot older based on what I CAN remember* at a restaurant,I don't know if it was ...

I have severe depression and self harm. I have the ability to live a highly productive very affluent life if I could just function. I was severely emotionally abused by my family. The trauma from my family's abuse is completely debilitating. And ending up living in poverty and on the streets for most of my life. I could go detail by detail into how horrible every day is living like this. All because of growing ...

Hi guys, I have only posted once on here before and got great answers, but I thought i might give another question a shot, so i had a rather traumatic experience at age 11 due to a move from northern to southern california, i was a new kid at an elemtnary school, i was always an honor student blah blah blah good kid and all, but for some reason i came across rather rude and ...

Let me start this thread off by describing my living situation: I am 16 years old and in high school, my younger sister is 13 and in middle school, and my older sister is 19 and in college. (She can't move out due to disability.) We live with our mother and father.

Now my mother ... my mother is scary. Very scary. At times she can be nice and laidback, but she has an extremely ...

Hi friends,

I'm new here. There's so many different sections. I haven't seen any for emotional abuse. So I guess I should post it here.

So basically, I was severely emotionally abused by my family just for being of higher intelligence. It was so toxic for me that I ended up living on the streets. If I knew then what I know now, I probably would have been able to live at home, understand what ...

How are you dealing with having been humiliated in front of many people, excessively, when you were a defenseless child (3-6 y/o)?

I think my dad might have been some sort of psychopath, because he used violence and psychological methods to destroy the "me", and I have this (sometimes) intense feelings that is similar to humiliations still working me over (im 34 now). Some other family members too, but I can't deal with all of ...