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Childhood Painful Past

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Saint Nik

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Like Eminem once sang. I am out with my shovel and ready to clean out my closet! :O_o:

I am trying to process the extent of pain from the abuse my family endured on me. It wasn't just both my parents. It was a grandparent, an Aunt and cousin's that would physically be violently aggressive towards me or cause emotional pain with their nasty words.

I woke up this morning in absolute tears. Since the death of my mother and being away from these family members now, everything absolutely EVERYTHING is now coming back to haunt me. I know it has to in order to heal. :unsure:

My only issue right now, is I hate that I have to deal with pain I didn't cause. This wasn't my fault these cruel, sadistic people had no f*cking concept on what they were doing, or even if they did (which makes it worse) ends up f*cking me up in the end! And that is where I am now, f*cked up because of the 80s and the 90s and the abuse carried on right up until I hit 30! Coming up for 5 years and I am now picking up the shattered pieces to mend them and cutting myself badly on them! I probably should just leave these pieces on the floor! :mad:

I want to stop hating them all. I want to forgive them. . . but how do you even start? I can't just wake up one morning and then say, yeah, it was shit what they did to you, but let's forgive them and let all of this :poop: go! Does it even work like that?

:cry: Why is this so hard and difficult to do? Why should I even have to suffer at the hands of these arseholes? Why at the age of 34 am I still getting flashbacks of my childhood? Certain things triggering it off each time. Could be a song on the radio, a specific smell, a certain look or vibe someone gives me that very much resonates with my abusive family members! How sometimes I can be sitting there doing absolutely nothing, then all of a sudden I feel like I am 8, 12 or 15 again. . . reliving some trauma or pain again. It just hits me out of nowhere! :confused:
That I was seven years old when I took my first every overdose!!! SEVEN YEARS OLD!!! :eek: A child who wanted to end their life??? A letter from my sperm donor in great detail how he doesn't want anything to do with me because his partner at the time said so. How she didn't want me to be part of his and her family! f*ck you too!

It's crazy, some people are wary of going outside their home and maybe fear being attacked! I was attacked daily in my own home. I struggle with self-esteem, relationships, being myself, learning much better self-talk, to be kinder to myself. . . I don't know how to do any of these things because I was taught from an early age with the way I was treated. YOU ARE A PIECE OF :poop: ON THEIR SHOE AND WORTHLESS IN EVERY SINGLE WAY! This message I got LOUD and CLEAR!

To you c*nts that hurt me all the time and knew what you were doing - a big, f*ck YOU!!! I will get passed this, even if I die f*cking trying. I hate that you pricks built me up to be this panicky, traumatized wreck. . . but I will get some form of control (and not get it back, because I never had it in the first place!)

I am tormented, but I know these feelings will pass. I will sit here and relive the trauma over and over again. Like a youtube video inside my head playing all those wicked, cruel, sadistic games my family played. How they made me feel about myself, how they taught me to always second guess myself, taught me to doubt myself in every single way. Would you give a child a double. . .no a quadrupal shot of whisky or even a cocktail of chemical drugs? Well that is what childhood abuse is like.
Soon as the abuse starts, you hand over a glass of this powerful chemical called adrenaline, setting of chain reactions of coristol and other stressful chemicals and totally f*ck up the child's brain chemistry. . . and instead of that child having fun and feeling free (as all children should feel) instead they feel f*cked up, their mind and body are not their own, they grow into these anti-social adults with multiple disorders, unable to balance their life out, become addicted to toxic relationships, drugs, thrill seekers, alcohol, sleeping around, allowing abuse to continue and with strangers too. . .why? Because that is all we have ever known, was how to be shit on from a great height, we got use to the smell, the taste, the feeling and when we don't have it. . . we feel lost, confused, scared and in a sick and warp twisted way we crave that abuse as it's all we have ever known! It's learned behaviours and such a hard habit to break! :inpain:

Where was my Angel? My God when these things were happening? Is there even such a thing? Like a quote from Abraham Lincoln- "When I do bad, I feel bad. When I do good, I feel good. That is my Religion!"
And the only way I can feel good is to manage my feelings, allow the thoughts, emotions, trauma, reliving the experience all come and find my centre in it all. Keep telling myself that the abuse was ingrained into my cells, into my core, into my being and now it's working it's way out of my blood, bones, skin, through my nerves and out each and every cell and fibre of my body. . .so yes, it is going to be painful and it is going to feel like I am possessed by a demon. And in a way I probably am. . . but isn't this how hero and warriors are made when they face up to the most powerful demon of all?

No more:
Fuck Everything And Run.
But more:
Facing Everything And Rise.
Face Everything And Recover!

It's gonna be tough, but it's time now to face this painful past and finally bury it, cremate it and rest it in peace!!
I just hope I find my peace through this storm I am stuck in at the moment! Reminds me of that film with Bill Murray when he is in the coffin and screaming out " I wanna live. I WANNA LIVE!!" Yeah, me too. I want to stop surviving, switch off my survival mode I have been on since a child, it's like I have came right out of the cave man years! I want to stop surviving and now live. Actually enjoy this life. I've been an adult all my life. . .I now want to experience the joys of a child that was taken away from me!

Thanks for reading. Peace and love <3 :hug:
 
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A gentle :hug: if you accept!
You deserved a better a childhood, and you have every right to health and recovery. Good on you for fighting for a healthier life, even though every step is painful and you never deserved any of this. Never give up on yourself, because you're worth it! You are a warrior!
 
@Dragonfly-Dawn Aww, thank you and yes, I accept :hug: felt so much shame as I typed that up, but it had to come out, it had to be released and I feel very safe exposing myself on this site! Can't stop crying right now, but I know it's the beginning of recovery and healing! The abuse is now over, finally over and I am finally stepping into the light and allowing love to come through :)
Hope you are having a nice day and thank you for your kind words :hug: :tup:
 
Shame is such a hard thing to work through, believe me... I know. But if we are being truly honest, these things were done to you. You should not feel ashamed. The people who abused you should be feeling ashamed. You were an innocent child. I wish you all the best @Saint Nik! Just remember you are a warrior and never minimize that because it's a really big thing!

Having a good cry can bring on so much relief. I hope this happens for you. This forum is excellent, I'm slowly starting to feel okay expressing myself here and I'm glad you are too!

"And in the end.. We were all just humans.. Drunk on the idea that love... Only love... Could heal our brokenness." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

May you receive the love that you need to recover. Love from others, love from yourself. :hug:

~Dragonfly
 
Dear Saint Nik,

I crashed yesterday as you know, I went so deep into my childhood and one particular issue I became quickly swamped in the most painful emotional overload of my life. I like you have been wading through shattered memories and have cut myself badly many times trying to pick the pieces up, trying to move them out of the way.

Last night I desperatelly needed members of this forum to help me get through the shards of hatred and guilt surrounding me. You yourself came to my rescue along with so many others and helped me not only move those broken memories, between all of us we sorted through them together, put the pieces back together and placed them safely, back where they belong. It was hard, and painful but with the support we did it.

You came to my aid selflessly, putting your own issues aside to hold me up, to help me with a task os such magnitude I was falling over with every step. I am grateful to the maximum. You can be assured of one think @Saint Nik, I will be here whenever you need me, I will return the care and support you gave me ten fold. You are a fighter, keep fighting but remember this, you are not alone and we are here for each other on this forum when we need each others support.

Kindest thoughts and much love coming your way, Huge :hug:s

Laurie (and Little_Laurie)
 
@Mr Laurie I am grateful for finding this site, like yourself I am now digging deep into the pits of my core and being and ready to heal those moments that were never fully recovered or looked after, that were just left in memory, causing so much pain inside and finally we shine the light upon the darkness and nothing will be hidden for much longer. :hug: Trust the process as healing is now taking place :) Thank you for your kind words Mr Laurie!

Take care :tup:
 
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