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Originally Posted by i dont matter
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??? |
I feel that way. I was mildly abused by my ex-husband and verbally abused by my father as a child but I hear other people's stories of abuse and I'm like, "It was never that bad." I suffered no broken bones. I got my fair share of bruises, got scared quite a lot and had lots of suicidal thoughts and self esteem issues but I do feel like complaining about my life when others' problems are so much worse is kind of whiny of me. I actually came here because I don't really feel like I can talk to the people in my life about this stuff. Either they know my ex and wouldn't believe me, or they don't know him and if I tell them about the way he treated me I feel like I'm vilifying him and that it isn't fair because they only hear my side.