pachyderm I have to agree with you to an extent. Abuse is different to everyone and to some people things are more abusive then others. I have (for some reason) a hang up about getting yelled at. Everytime I get yelled at I burst into tears no matter how much I try not to. Wheares I can be hit and beat and it doesn't affect me as bad. However we have a traditonal idea of abuse being physical or sexual not verbal. For me abuse is verbal and my Dad yells at me a lot ever since I was a little kid. So here I am...with the suspection of being a Schizo makes sense...
P.S.. Pachyderm I like your name it means "fish skin" I think because Pachy=fish Derm=Skin(I think) Did you know this or did you think it was original sounding? Or were you making a reference to the disease.