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Before Therapy:
1. Bulimic
2. Self Harming
3. Desperately getting attention from men by giving away my body to them. (Not always a bad thing but left me feeling empty)
4. Always planning my suicide
5. Never succeeding in a career
After Therapy: (ok after like 7 years of therapy)
1. Bulimia gone
2. Stopped self harming
3. Sexless (ok well that sucks)
4. Longer stretches of being suicide thoughts free
5. Own my own personal training business. Went to school and became a licensed massage therapist.
Yes the attachment is painful and I know I can not stay forever.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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