Parental Emotional Abuse

I ve been reading the book by Pete Walker: Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. I just read a part on how we minimize emotional or verbal abuse because it s not physical, and assume physical is so much worse. Well, I did something similar with my mother growing up. It wasn t until I was 23 when I finally opened up to a therapist about things my mother had done or said to me growing up, that I realized my mother was abusive. The therapist validated my feelings of "this didn t seem... Parental Emotional Abuse
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