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Mar 11, 2009, 08:30 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: Seattle
Posts: 34
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I think one big thing I have struggled with is figuring out whether or not I have exaggerated my childhood traumas. I really don't think my mother has any idea how bad my childhood was because of my father's emotional abuse. Actually, she's not completely innocent of putting me on an emotional roller coaster...for the last 33 yrs.
My mother has the attitude of "I had it worse." I have always felt really guilty for being depressed and full of anxiety, because while growing up, I was made to believe that I had a charmed life  . There was a contradiction going on.
My mother denies tons of things. This is how she hides from reality, but it has prevented me from healing, I believe.
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