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I think I may have been sexually abused as a child. If I have I don't know who would have done and I don't feel safe bringing it up with people who could have. :(

I remember playing with my older brother. He was angry for some reason and was telling me that him touching his jeans covered bum and then touching me wasn't the same as ...

I need to vent badly. I have nowhere to turn. My fiancé knows the very tip of the iceberg but he really has no idea.
I'm struggling really bad. I thought I was stronger then this, I thought at 21 I would have moved passed it all but I haven't. I feel like I'm sinking and unravelling and the real me is coming out. The me who is unlovable.
My mom met my stepdad when ...

Hello all,
I empathize with everyone here dealing with child abuse.
I'm 34, married, with a daughter.
Lately I've had some memories kind of bubble to the surface about my childhood. I was always an angry and lonely kid. By the time I was 8 years old I was competing with 4 sibling for any kind of attention from my parents. My dad worked all the time to support a family of 7, and my ...

My stepdaughter is being (and has been her whole life) abused in her biological mothers home by her stepfather. She is almost 9 and is finally reaching a breaking point and speaking to us about it.

A little history on the situation:

I have been in my stepdaughters life since she was about 6 months old. Her biological mother was born in the US and graduated high school, but comes from a first generation, Hispanic, ...

Anger is something I feel every day, all the time.

I take medication to control the symptoms. It if builds up, stress related symptoms of all sorts make me anxiious, depressed and with no physical health. Somatizations from stress... I've got most. Also distorts my cognition terribly.

With all the abuse I've suffered, it's understandable it owuld make such an impression in my mind.
It's all I think about, all the time. Fragments of various ...

This evening in the supermarket I bumped into the woman who was my social worker when I was a teenager. She was the team manager at the time. She became my social worker because I absolutely hated the one I was appointed, plus she had experience of working with people who self harm as she had previously worked as a mental health practitioner.

We had a pleasant chat. Both my kids were with me, so ...

Hey there, I'm wondering if this would be considered child emotional abuse, some people have told me it is and some not. I'll try and keep it succinct.

I'm male early 20's, I've been moved out of my mother's house for a year now as we always had problems.

She is a single mom, came to North America in the 70's with my family after leaving their home country due to civil war, which was ...

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Abuse comes in many forms and can be physical, sexual, emotional or neglectful. Abuse does not discriminate against age or gender ...

Please, I'm looking for suggestions regarding something my 5 year old daughter told me. We were at a family picnic and at the end of the night on our way home I asked if she had fun. It was late and she told me she had fun except when her cousin rubbed her on her private spot. She said she just doesn't know why he does that. She told me he's done this before and ...

Okay, so my Grandma seems totally sure that I was sexually abused by my step-father/Mother's boyfriend as a child.

Well, he turned up when I was 3, and I started soiling myself when I was around 8 years old. He started mentally abusing me, calling me names and stuff, for around 3 years.

After this time, my grandma found out about it and took me to live with her. I guess she got it into ...