Yeah, I think lots of us were told that. I was told that not only would no one believe me, I would be locked up in the State mental hospital because people would know I was crazy. And then I did try to tell the school counselor about the physical abuse when I was in seventh grade. I told him how severe it was and how the hitting left bruises for weeks. He asked me what I did to provoke my parents into hitting me. He said he had met my parents and knew they loved me and would not hit me like that unless I was doing something to provoke them. Later that day, he called my mother to "warn" her about the "stories" I was making up about her.