I was through some things, rather mild in comparison to much I've heard but I guess it was persistent enough to leave a mark. Personally, I believe that no parents are perfect and that the only way to learn how to handle children is to have them. No parents are truly ready to raise a child though, obviously, some are far more capable of raising them than others.
Emotional Abuse
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Ah, but serious physical abuse never heals completely, and can bridge into emotional abuse.DiMono said:
After being subjected to both in my past, I'll take physical over emotional any day. Physical abuse will attack your innocence as well, but nothing is quite as intimate as raw emotional abuse.
Abuse, by the way, is what happens when you are harming a particular person who implicitly and explicitly trusts you to a fault to the point where you are leaving lasting harm on the target. Abuse can be actual physical beating leaving injuries[footnote]A light cuff upside the head doesn't harm the target, but it does get their attention[/footnote], forcing a child to handle themselves when you're gone for an extended period, usually measured in days, repeated and intentionally invoked psychological trauma, usually leaving lasting results, and repeated attacks against a child's confidence and innocence.
Often, a person who's been subjected to abuse will not have a "childhood" in the sense that others have. Rather, they're forced to grow up earlier in life, creating an equally scarred and mature person in their adult life. Abuse can affect a person in multiple ways, two of which being repeating it with their own family as they grow or choosing to help those who were in situations like theirs or worse.
Abuse, by the way, is what happens when you are harming a particular person who implicitly and explicitly trusts you to a fault to the point where you are leaving lasting harm on the target. Abuse can be actual physical beating leaving injuries[footnote]A light cuff upside the head doesn't harm the target, but it does get their attention[/footnote], forcing a child to handle themselves when you're gone for an extended period, usually measured in days, repeated and intentionally invoked psychological trauma, usually leaving lasting results, and repeated attacks against a child's confidence and innocence.
Often, a person who's been subjected to abuse will not have a "childhood" in the sense that others have. Rather, they're forced to grow up earlier in life, creating an equally scarred and mature person in their adult life. Abuse can affect a person in multiple ways, two of which being repeating it with their own family as they grow or choosing to help those who were in situations like theirs or worse.
Emotional abuse lingers in that it affects the way you interact with other people for YEARS after, and physical abuse can have emotionally abusive consequences too. It screws up your socialisation radar and affects your opinion of yourself for years to come.
I was lucky enough to be raised in a happy family, but my understanding of abuse comes from my parents. My mother was emotionally abused by her mother, and I would even argue that she CONTINUES to be abused by her mother to this day, as a result of the emotional abuse she received as a child. Her mother was an alcoholic and basically spent her whole adult life tearing down my mother's self esteem from childhood. Did the same to my uncle too and basically ruined his ability to have relationships with women.
I really don't want to go into anymore than that because it makes me angry and I don't want this to affect me when I see my family at Christmas.
I was lucky enough to be raised in a happy family, but my understanding of abuse comes from my parents. My mother was emotionally abused by her mother, and I would even argue that she CONTINUES to be abused by her mother to this day, as a result of the emotional abuse she received as a child. Her mother was an alcoholic and basically spent her whole adult life tearing down my mother's self esteem from childhood. Did the same to my uncle too and basically ruined his ability to have relationships with women.
I really don't want to go into anymore than that because it makes me angry and I don't want this to affect me when I see my family at Christmas.