I read so many stories here..... some awful, awful stuff. The stuff of horror books. And my heart breaks for each and every one of you.....

I have some issues - but nothing like the horror stories. Mine are "minor"......

• I was physically and mentally abused by my brother.

• My mother mentally abused me (she was not deliberately trying to - she just could not "parent" very well).

• My only friend would "grind" on me (and I HAD to hang out with him or my mother promised to humiliate me).

• I have a memory of my grandfather that is incomplete - but we do know that he molested my mother and my aunts (unsure if he molested his son).

Okay, it was not an ideal life..... but it pales compared to so many things that I have read here.


I am in therapy - but I often feel like I am wasting their time over my "minor" issues. That I am being a whiner or a cry baby.....

Anyone else feel this way???