I have been on the Depression forum, self-esteem forum and visited some of the others. But, I don't think I have posted much on this one.
I did therapy in college and got sucked into talking about my childhood for a whole session. I think I cried throughout a good proportion of it. I have always felt that my childhood wasn't really all that bad. I mean sure my parents insulted me. That shouldn't be a big deal. However, I have been wondering about things lately. I have noticed a strange ability to transfer on people which annoys me last semester. Prior to my recent drop in the GAF scale, I was thinking about some of this. Also, I recently started therapy again and I was weird in the assessment. She asked if I had ever been emotionally abused. I stated it depended on her definition and then told her some examples. I did the same response to if I had ever been physically abused. Somehow, I just can't quite call my parents saying things like "You're too stupid to be a doctor, " emotional abuse. At the time that was my worst fear. I have learned a lot of my negative thinking from them. So why do I seem to be unable to think of it as emotional abuse? I could tell that my T was defining it as that. I have a bad feeling that the subject of childhood will come up some more.