I have all these effects of abuse and I'm pretty sure I was severely abused emotionally but I keep doubting myself mainly because my mom doesn't believe it, and she was there my whole life growing up. She definitely enables my dad (who did the abusing), so maybe she just overlooks all the criticisms and eroding of my confidence my dad did to me. And the couple of times he physically abused me (not so bad though). So I'm doubting myself every day that the abuse caused a lot of my problems. But I have no other way to explain the shame, fear, my lag in emotional maturity, my trouble with relationships, my craving to be abused (which has gone away a lot), my relationship with an emotional manipulator, and a lot of other symptoms that my bipolar can't explain. My mom just doesn't understand how it felt to be abused. But am I right it causes my problems even though I don't have any bruises or injuries, did the emotional abuse still effect me in a lot of ways?