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Sufferer Hi Everyone, I Am New On This Forum

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Hi everyone,

I am glad to be here. It's nice to to know there is support. I am very grateful.
Today is a little bit harder than normal, but I am glad that I took myself exercise and finish a painting.

I will give a brief history about me.
I came from a family with mental illness history, domestic violence and a very conservative town in Taiwan.
I am the middle child among the rest of my four siblings. My family is very traditional, and was barely to afford to have another girl by the time I was born. My parents gave me up on adoption because I am a girl. Though later, they regretted it and stole me back from the adopting family. I found out this piece of history confronted by my use-to adopted father one day one the way back home from elementary school. I was 7 when I confronted my biological parents, and they admitted the reason they gave me up was because I should be a boy. My dad who was later on diagnosed with bio-polar was extremely violent, unpredictable and often acted out on my mother who is extremely manipulative, now still his co-depandent partner. My childhood was full of blood, violence, hospital visits and police officers, my coping machinism is pleasing people, being a control freak at school among my peers, teachers pet and achieving high academic standers and escapism. Also, being a neglected middle-child, I was also act as the role as a care-taker emotionally and financially for my family until 5 years ago, my therapist give me the permission to stop. I was rapped by my neighbour who was a teen at that time at age 10.

I withdrew myself from my country 8 years ago, because I knew I had to otherwise I believe I would die (possibly suicide) I had built a life for myself at the land down under, and have a very supportive partner. I have also been doing psychological work for the past five years. It is extremely difficult to deal with the sense of helpless, the abandonment, fear, dissociation, guilt and shame. I have been live with depression, anxiety for as long as I could remembered. I have all the support I have now, but a lot of the time, I can only count the seconds and breath. It should be my time to shine now, but the truth is that I ended up in the emergency room two months ago attempting suicide. I can't seemed to shake off the guilt and shame, and to re-wire my brain, telling myself that I deserve better. I know recovery requires time, effort and support, it's been 5 years in the recovery, and it seemed to me it's only just the start of the chapter. I am here to seek/give support, and connection.
 
there is no time limit on working through it all it is just in your own time. seems you are like me and impatient to be in a different place in your mindset than you are right now. you just have to trust that you will get there one day where ever there is.
 
Welcome. I'm so glad you got yourself out of that toxic situation and are now happy with your partner. It's hard to do, I know. I moved 1,000 miles away from my abusive mother, but it was one of the best things I ever did.
 
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