Thread: Was I abused?
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Old Oct 11, 2006, 04:39 AM
Anonymous29319
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Going by what you have posted I personally think you may have been at the very least emotionally abused.

Dont compare whether or not you were abused and severity based on what we say. See everyone has their own flight or fight tollorance level of what their bodys and minds consider abusive. Some things that I consider abusive other people would not feel is abusive for them and things that I consider to be normal others experiencing the same thing would not consider it abusive. What is considered abusive from one person to another is how they experience the sitaution for exmple I don't consider my therapist being bold enough to tell me she thinks I am headed the wrong way or doing something the wrong way (now that I know she has my best interest at heart) but yet other people in therapy would consider a therapist telling them to stop doing something they are doing and being bold about it as being abusive. I know a few people that had loud deep voiced fathers that they consider as not abusing them, but just because of the type of voice that parent had reminded them of a different abuser so they were scared of them even though the father never hit them. Since the fathers abuse was always focused on the mother they were never afraid of being abused by that father. I know alot of people who's fathers abused their mothers actually went up against the father during that abuse of the mother to help the mother get away from the father even while the father is swinging away that child tried to protect the mother by attacking the father getting in the middle of the fighting, hitting the father, jumping on the fathers back, arms, legs in efforts to stop him from beating the mother.

Only YOU can say what YOU persieved as being abusive for you.

Hang in there.