For years I was angry with my parents for what they did that hurt me and for what they didn’t do that I needed. I was still that scared little girl who would hide from my family. I was depressed for years because I didn’t have a way to process my childhood and everything else that happened once I was an adult. It seemed that all the emotional trauma that I kept inside …
I have someone in my life, a family member, with whom I have had a long and difficult relationship. It has gotten so that it doesn’t take much, when we have an encounter, for me to get all stirred up and start spinning into negative thoughts about this person. I would get off the phone with her or come home from seeing her and complain to my husband about the upsetting things she did this time! Once that negativity got rolling, it could go on for awhile, and was difficult to get past. I grew to hate these times, hate this person for being the way she was and hate myself for feeling the way I did…
Some of my family members and I jokingly refer to the negative family traits as our family values. But they are not so funny and I personally would like to see them stopped and not handed down to future generations …
Author: Michael Strelcheck “Recognizing The Emotions Of Being Abused” The aftermath of an incident of abuse is often physically apparent to the victim, but what is not so obvious is the emotional damage. Modern psychology has long struggled with trying to understand what unexpected trauma does to the human psyche. In recent years there has …
It’s a difficult thing to understand why a person would hurt or abuse the ones they love. I know from experience, being physically disciplined as a young child, that being victimized by a loved one (my father) is an emotionally traumatic experience. Although I felt that my father loved me, I couldn’t understand what I saw (and felt) in his angry behaviors …