God Mave, that's awful! I'm so terribly sorry that your childhood looked like that! I notice you don't call her mom or mother, for obvious reasons too. No child should ever have to go through that ... now you're making me cry ...for that little eight year old boy that deserved so much more than he ever received in life.
Do you think a lot of people with depression etc has had some kind of traumatic experience when they were younger? Just curious.
And never feel badly for expressing yourself here either. If it's therapeutic, then do it. Please. I'll always be here to listen :) <3<3
Thank you Lynn it really warms my heart whenever you pass by.
I have worked with abuse children when I volunteered for a non government organization here and a lot of them are depressed and often times blame themselves to what happened to them.
They think that its their fault, that just by living they were to blame to what happened and most times they do not recognize the abuse because they are so used to it.
It really broke me and through therapy and my sisters I was able to have a semblance of life after.
Sometimes I look back and think what else I could have done.
You are most welcome Mave; I'm so glad that I can be a positive in your life :)
...and that's the worse thing to do I think. Hindsight is always 20/20. I always think about people's motivations when I'm thinking about their actions, so as a kid, I'm guessing there wasn't anything you could have done differently to change things, mostly because it wasn't you that needed changing.
Sending lots of love and hugs my friend.