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Nov 12, 2011, 08:34 AM
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Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 6,543
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You just described MY home life. LOL Everything looked hunky-dory on the outside, but inside it was a horror movie. 
It took lots of therapy for me to get thru this. Then finally one day I realized that my parents gave ME what THEY were given. They couldn't give me something that they didn't have. That realization helped me alot. Plus I vowed to NEVER put my own family thru that.
There were 4 kids on our family too -- and ALL of us suffer from depression. Medication has worked wonders for me -- and of course therapy didn't hurt. 
I think there are more families than we think who are the "Hitler-Stalin" types. In our society, we just don't talk about the skeletons in our closet. For some reason, we bear this alone -- which is foolish.
Best of luck & God bless. I hope you're doing well. Hugs, Lee
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