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Mental abuse really is on its on level of screwed up and exactly it skews your perception on yourself and the world and its terrible. Youre definitely not alone and glad you reached out to find a support group.

It really helps to hear that positive things have come from therapy from you and others who have shared that with me. And coming here has helped me feel less alone and like I have so much more support than I did before. Thank you for reaching out. Really hoping to heal.

This is such a comforting message thank you. I think I'm gonna make the call Monday and actually take that step to start therapy. And I hope that it will help me like its helped you. Thank you for sharing this its very much appreciated. Trying to get over my fears

Thank you for the encouragement I'm gonna try and do something nice for myself and I hope you're being nice to yourself too! I think we'll make it through this.

Feeling low. Just want to enjoy life. And stop having so much anxiety. I want to stop feeling so hopeless. I want to stop being so triggered around my family. I want the nightmares and intrusive memories to stop. I want to feel something other than despair. I wish I felt like I could trust...

Yeah same here. Especially dissociation.

You pose a good discussion. When I was a child dealing with emotional and physical abuse I used avoidance as much as possible when I could. However now it doesn't help at all and it holds me back in ways I never thought it could in my individual life, my romantic relationships and even...

Hi there. I can relate to your situation completely as I was also emotionally and physically and mentally abused by my mother up until I was 19 and moved into an apartment with my sisters. And now that I no longer live there, she tries to be super nice, spending time with me, and all of that...

It's really comforting to know I'm not alone, thank you

It was brought to my attention that maybe I should formally introduce myself here. So here I am. I have experienced child hood abuse both physical and emotional up until I was an adult. Months later after making an effort to leave the situation I was victim to a motorcycle accident which...

Beautifully written and explained. It really made me rethink a lot about how I'm going about healing and change.

Super interesting way to explain dissociating and trust. I never took that aspect into consideration

I am in the same boat as you, new to figuring all my issues out. Its a good thing you are reaching out as that has been the only thing helping me as I wait to attend therapy. I experience Dissociation as just being glazed over, mentally emotionally and psychologically not present, sometimes even...

Just speaking on my own experiences I feel that the discipline becomes abuse when you begin to experience great fear of your parents after being hit or "disciplined" instead of understanding of a wrong doing? I hope that makes sense. I have repressed so much but as a child I remember just being...

I totally agree. For a long time I could not face the reality of the abusive situation. It was easier to believe that it was just normal or that it didn't happen. I fell into a pit of depression once accepting that reality. Good post.

Most of the abuse I feel I suffered in childhood came in phases of physical, emotional and then physical. When I was very young I would get beat beyond the normal and acceptable means of discipline(with electric chords and other things until I was covered in marks) my mother worked often and...

Hi, I was recently in a car accident as well and have felt everything as you have. I hardly watch any television or movies due to the panic attacks and severe emotional response that seeing those car accidents can bring. I am so tense when I am in a car as I fear another accident will occur. I...