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Old Nov 27, 2010, 06:56 PM
dalton dalton is offline
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saw a tv story about neglect and has just left me so sad and upset. just reminds me that i was emotionally neglected. reminds me that i HATE the mother so much for all the social and attachment problems i have today. just reminds me how defective i am in basic people stuff. its like every time i get a reminder like this its like i have to grieve what i never got all over again. and i hate it so much because its so hard to say this is what she did wrong this is what she did to me. because its all about what she DIDN'T do and its so hard for me to know because i don't know what was missing. just a big vague empty hole.
I was both abused and neglected. In my experience, neglect is harder to come to terms with.

When you are beaten an otherwise abused, you KNOW what you're angry at.

Neglect can feel worse. What is my worth when the caregivers loathed the sight of me? What is wrong with me, what am I missing that other children were born with?

Feeling profoundly unlovable is a monstrous way to go through life.