Suffering from trauma

[Auticorn]

Be aware that trauma affects people differently. Just because you may not see at as a big deal doesn't mean it shouldn't be for the other person either. Keep that in mind when discussing experiences and such.

Anyway, have you ever suffered any trauma? What kind of trauma (if you are comfortable with answering this)? How did you deal with trauma you faced?

I can't begin to tell you the amount of mental/emotional trauma I have faced in my life. A lot of it was mostly during my school years. I had teachers treat me badly. In a life skills program I was once in, I had the worst experiences ever. I won't really get into my experiences much since they are still hard to talk about. :/ Anyway, at one time, my mom had complained to the school about it, and she talked them into letting me stay out of school because I had enough credits. There was one time when she actually called them. TWO principals came to her to talk with her about how she was treating me. After that, the teacher never wanted to bother me again.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

I was sexually abused as a preschooler for a couple years that my parents didn't care enough to do anything about. I was severely neglected by my mother throughout my whole adolescence and watched my father push his HIV-positive brother dealing with depression, alcoholism and renal failure to commit suicide over some cheese in the refridgerator all the while physically abusing and threatening my sister and I. I had to completely detach from one of my parents and honestly want to detach from the other. I'm still neglected by my mother and it's bad since she does outwardly things that people would see from "caring parents," ergo buying me food out, giving me a debit card, but not having the house be safe to live in or give me any mobility whatsoever while I fail school.

I never really saw any of it as that big a deal. I wish Joey was still here but honestly I've probably been lanced up too much to feel it like I should.

 

[Yukari]

Fortunately I haven't suffered any trauma myself.