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Old Mar 08, 2014, 01:20 PM
Yearning0723 Yearning0723 is offline
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Originally Posted by stopdog View Post
I come from a time (we did not get a tv until I was in grade school) and a place (southern us) when children were hit by everyone. No one focused on how we felt, we were not consulted about life decisions, families were not democracies, and children were the property of parents or other adults. Seriously, we (people my age and in my geographic area) do not all need therapy because of it. I don't consider therapy a need for me, although I choose to go.

I actually do think there can be too much credit given to the idea of therapy or that everyone could benefit from it. It is not a universal panacea and not everyone is traumatized by everything.
So what do you think is the difference between people who get hit as kids who are traumatized by it and people who get hit as kids who aren't traumatized by it? It's obviously not the intensity of the hitting, since my friend doesn't seem to be damaged in any way by that but I definitely have lots of emotional baggage from being hit as a kid, even though it was never "as bad".