I had two unnuturing parents and was abandoned and emotionally and physically abused by both. And I am so sure that this lead to much of my emotional instability. Lead to being an adult who was still emotionally not grown up. My psychiatrist did not help with this but I searched and looked inward a lot to see how I could help myself mature emotionally and heal.

My sistes and I were very close and we would discuss our parents actions in private amd support each other. We knew that is was not right and looking back we were pretty aware of the potential damage. If we didn't have each other then I am not sure how we would have looked at it. So we tried to help heal each other.

Thing is we can heal and we can grow. Now I didnt have psycotherapy, at best I had minimal therapy. Evem when psychotherapy is not available we still have it within us to heal and mature. And when we become adults we have a responsability to ourselves...where do we go from here? And knowing that was probably the biggest motivator for me to work on myself.