I was physically abused by my sibling. It's had a tremendous impact on me.

Like Wolfie it has wrecked my capacity to trust and left me with a major dissociation problem. I have great difficulty expressing anger or being around it so I have set up a life of non-intimate relationships to avoid those feelings.

T describes me as "high functioning." I hold down a job and excel at it, but that's the only part of my life that is functional. It's just like when I was a kid and focused on school to get through the abuse at home.

I have a lot of shame about being abused by a sibling because it is a category of abuse that is often not discussed. So it feels extra weird that it happened to me.