I keep having nightmares, where I am a child, and I'm being yelled at by my mother I am screaming and crying back at her. I've got a burning handprint shape on my legs, where she smacked me and I'm taken out into the garage (detached from house) and locked in there.

I wake up out of this nightmare and realise this actually happened.
I was talking about this with a friend and they said to me, that this was abuse, without a doubt.

I don't know how I feel about it, if it is, I don't believe that it was, because I justify it as I was a troubled kid, hard to manage. But now I realise that my mother had serious anger issues and that this wasn't acceptable behaviour.