It's been like this my entire life. I was bullied for my weight and learning disability, my mother physically and verbally abused me, my father was never there for me at all, and I've had friends and relatives ****-talk me and ghost me out of nowhere. While working in education, I was subjected to verbal abuse by students and apathy at best by the administrators. In fact, the principal at the last school I worked at told me, a college educated adult that I would be better off working at Burger King.

I don't get it. I've made mistakes in my life to be sure, but I don't deserve this. All the abuse and mistreatment I've gotten in my life weighs on me constantly. It seems like I can't go a day without remembering some terrible thing someone did or said to me. I want to move on with my life and forward to a better future, but to do that I have to come to terms with my past, and I'm not sure how to.