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Originally Posted by HALLIEBETH87
I see t in person tomorrow thank God. I’ve been struggling so bad with trauma this week since I last saw him.
If I had just told someone about the abuse. Instead I hid it for ten years. I went to school with bruises and kids made fun of me. I had so many chances to tell. I could have told a teacher, preacher or even the social workers who came to school. I could have told. Now I’m messed up. My mental health is my own damn fault.
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I feel similarly. Even my bus driver knew and she brought it up to me and I just said "I can handle it." That was my big chance to tell someone and have the dude put in jail for years, but I blew it. But we were just kids, doing whatever we were raised to do. I can't count the times my dad said "any attention is good attention" and that mentally engrained from a young age (coupled with neglect) really f**ked me up.