I wasn't a "scapegoat" exactly, but my mother (bipolar 1 & not stable at all plus alcoholic) was very promiscuous sexually & used to do things like wake me up in the middle of the night & call me a ***** & kick me out of the house (my father basically deserted us by going to live on his yacht) or insist I take off my pants & underwear so she could check me for STD's.

It wasn't until after I learned about projection that I realized what had happened to me--why she did that. There was no reason for her to call me a *****; she started this when I was a young age & I didn't even know what the word ***** meant. She also called my father's sisters *****s.--Suzy