Recent content by April34

Hey Ms Spock! Thanks. You know, I actually didn't really think I was " messed up" from my childhood. Maybe I was, but at least I was a hard working, extremely empathetic, good natured human being. I may have been somewhat co dependent and way too eager to make people happy, but I didn't know...

I am kind of new here, one month or so hanging around. I'm not sure my childhood was much different than the other kids in my small town where I grew up. I watched my dad beat my mother, smash TV's, offer me the phone to call the police only to rip it out of the wall before I could call, and...

This is more true than you know!!!!

My dad starts drinking at 7am and doesn't stop till he passes out at 7pm. He has said horrible things to me, but my mom always says "Oh April, you know he's drunk, why do you listen to him? Just ignore it." But its hard. He calls my son a "thing" and tells me things that make me want to die...

Yeah? Well if I lost my job I don't think id be able to come back from that. An ear, well that's just a flesh wound.....hahahahahha. What is TBI? I've had a lot of success and luck in my life besides the bad things that have happened. I've been knocked down to ground zero a few times, but...

I admire you for being strong enough to stand up to your PTSD and fight back. I know how hard it is. I'm envious and proud of you for this. I want the same thing in my life! Keep being my hero okay?

My parents think I should toughen up and get over this. They don't understand why i'm still having issues. they don't understand why I seem to get worse not better. Part of me agrees with them. My dad was a Vietnam vet/marine. He was a pretty violent alcoholic, and anytime someone was at the...

Hello all, I am stuck in my nightmare, hitting the rewind button over and over. My sister swallowed a bottle of Tylenol when she was 19, and I told my parents to "let her sleep it off" because I thought she was acting weird due to drugs. She did sleep it off,,, she died that night. But that...