CEN anxiety

unaluna · Mar 27, 2019 at 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Travelinglady

I wasn't familiar the term either, but it's an acronym standing for "childhood emotional neglect." Someone can be abused or otherwise have a bad childhood, but not be emotionally neglected, I think. But certainly the two do hand in hand.

Kind of the other way around - a kid might not have suffered physical abuse, but they might have been emotionally neglected. Like i learned how to avoid slaps, but it came at an emotional cost. I also avoided my parents.

Fuzzybear · Mar 28, 2019 at 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Kind of the other way around - a kid might not have suffered physical abuse, but they might have been emotionally neglected. Like i learned how to avoid slaps, but it came at an emotional cost. I also avoided my parents.

I can relate to this

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