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  1. J

    Cutting Ties With Toxic Family

    From someone who has been in your shoes and made the plunge a year and a half ago, its the best thing I have done. I have a younger sibling who is mentally abusive, had stolen my life savings some 30 year ago and never returned it. After informing him he owes me the current value of what he...
  2. J

    Cutting Ties With Toxic Family

    Elanor you cant be more right. The neglect I was subjected to conditioned me to react the same way. We are not only affected feeling unloved and not nurtured and protected, but we never learned the proper way to care for someone else since we never experienced it ourselves. This makes for...
  3. J

    Cutting Ties With Toxic Family

    I had a similar mother, she chose not to love and nurture and support me. In the outside world she had friends, maybe it was the need she had to have others love her but in her own home she was a classic neglector, did not show love or compassion toward me. She chose one of my siblings to be her...
  4. J

    Cutting Ties With Toxic Family

    Thank you Eleanor, right now I can feel its an internal struggle. On one hand I feel some doubt loosing a family member but on the other I know how much I have been abused mentally and emotionally and I can't go on living like that.
  5. J

    Cutting Ties With Toxic Family

    Today is my second day after informing my brother that I do not want him in my life any longer, in not so nice words. He learned at an early age via my mother how to lie and use it to control my world at home. he appealed to my disfuctional mother by fulfilling some psycological and emotional...
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