I have suffered a great deal steming from memories and resentment over my mother and her treatment of me.

I am taking Cognative Behaviour Therapy(CBT) with a little mindfulness thrown in.

CBT is about retraining yourself so that you take negative automatic thinking (ie. everyone will laugh at me) into positive (ie. no one actually cares). Or my mother was really a witch to she's no longer around to hurt me.

I'm not quite at the stage of automatically thinking that but forcing myself to find positive thoughts has already helped me a great deal.