Isn't family wonderful?

Bleah!

Now you know why I'm separated from mine. Stories like that.

You know what the sad part is? I still MISS them and I think that this whole mess I'm in is my fault! I was yelled at and put down so often by my folks that now, if someone says I'm a beautiful person, I don't believe them.

This is what emotional abuse has done to me and no one understands it!
Emotional abuse has to be the worst form of pain anyone can inflict on you. It inflicts wounds on you that may never be healed.You certainly think twice about trusting anything nice that anyone says of you, after hearing for years that you're a disappointment and disgrace. You think twice about trusting anyone at all.

It is much easier to believe the bad spoken of us than the good, especially if the bad is spoken by one so close to us, like a parent or a husband. What if you can't just "walk away."? How do you ever heal from that sort of damage?

I've been away from home for over 10 years and I still can't "walk away." I still hear those negative messages pounded into my head. Right now, they're near impossible to dismiss, to the dismay of a close friend.

I may never be able to walk away.

There is a thing more crippling than cerebral palsy: the prison of your own mind.