Thread: Just say it!
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Old Jan 05, 2015, 10:46 AM
Anonymous50005
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Originally Posted by Tongalee View Post
It wouldn't be "beating me up", it's simply succumbing to truth. Am I really alone in this?
Not alone in the sense that many of us totally understand where your head is at, but yes, alone by the fact that no one is going to find you "guilty" for having caused your abuse. Only a very warped mind would blame a child for causing their own abuse; the abuser is the one who is guilty of having mistreated, manipulated, and placed you in the horrible circumstance. You are not guilty of having done any wrong.

You feel shame for what you perceive is your culpability in what happened to you, but that is an emotion (and a misplaced one at best). Children don't cause their own abuse. No therapist is going to agree with your misplaced blame on yourself there.

But I get it. So do many of us who have worked through what you are feeling right now.

Last edited by Anonymous50005; Jan 05, 2015 at 11:12 AM.
Thanks for this!
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