I am writing because I was emotionally neglected and occasionally emotionally abused by my mom. I feel weird writing on the abuse forum because I realize that there are many people out there who endured physical and sexual abuse and I did not. But somehow the emotional abuse is so significant. I wish somehow society would have a greater awareness of the devastating effects of emotional neglect and abuse on a child/teenager. I grew up in a home where my mother never told me she loved me. she never hugged me. Mostly she just ignored me when she was angry. You could be in a room with her for an hour and she would never speak to you. When I got older she referred to me as a slut and accused me of trying to be seductive to my uncles. Which I would never do. She just seems to project all of her anger on to me. I wrote her a letter confronting her about this. She just denied it and said cruel things back to me. My father doesn't believe me and neither do my other siblings. they made me the black sheep of the family for telling the truth. Therapy and self help books and time have helped me heal. I toy with writing a book about emotional abuse someday.