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Originally Posted by Crescent Moon
Although I personally might think it's a little early in the relationship to 'go there,' I think your therapist is really and truly telling you what is true. Abuse does not have to be somebody getting bloodied with a stick and sent to the ER. Abuse doesn't have to be getting hit at all. And it is also very, very hard for someone who has grown up in a situation like that to recognize abuse as abuse, because it's all they've ever known, and since they aren't physically injured to the point they're in the ER, they think it is not abuse.
Did you know that emotional neglect is considered abuse? Children need more than just food, clothes and shelter to grow into healthy adults.
I know it might be hard to hear, and you certainly don't have to act on your therapist's suggestion right away, but just let it sit, and keep discussing it. She might see how you're negatively affected, and is rightly concerned about how much progress you'll be able to make if you're in an environment where the work she does with you is taken apart by your mother between sessions.
Take good care..
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I didn't know emotional neglet is considered abuse... Thank you Cresent Moon for your insights. I do think it was too early for her to go there. You need to biuld up trust and start a relationship with a T before you get into the nitty gritty stuff. See we will only have six sessions together so maybe she is trying to fit as much in as possible. She suggested I write my mother a letter but not send it and we can go through it next week. In the letter I am to write everything I want to say to her but can't.