7 Childhood Wounds from Rejection and Emotional Neglect

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  @nyxmegs · 1 year ago

  anyone else has the difficulty in trusting others??

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• KA

  @KatieG55 · 9 months ago

  I am 70 and still watching these kind of videos. 😔😔😔

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• JA

  @janetbellini8065 · 1 year ago

  This is the way I've felt all my life.  I was never validated as a child.  My parents never made me feel good about myself.

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• CH

  @christophermcdonald5578 · 2 years ago

  I hate compliments so bad. Gives me a "gross feeling" is the only way I can explain it

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• WI

  @wilberforce95 · 2 years ago

  The self-sabotage is really real. I know the life I'm living isn't healthy or good for me at all, but somehow my nervous system keeps me in it because that's where I feel safe.

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• MA

  @Marndarrr · 1 year ago (edited)

  I have the opposite of a fear of abandonment. When people cut me out, I get this sense of relief. Like “finally.” Like I had been waiting for it all along, and now they can go be happier without me and I don’t have to worry about it anymore.

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• CH

  @chickenspy1854 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I struggle to comfort people when they are grieving or going through a hard time. I often have to just separate myself from the situation or just say "I'm sorry". I believe it's because of one moment when I was 6 years old my family was making a VHS video to send to our dying grandfather. Everyone was sending their wishes and in my young naivete said "I hope you don't die, grandpa" and my father grabbed me and yelled at me to the point of tears. Told me to stop crying and do the video again, and through my tears I stood there in silence. Seems like a small thing now, but that moment has stuck with me for over almost 30 years.

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• K_

  @K_Beach714 · 1 year ago

  I wrote my mother a 6 page letter expressing my feelings from childhood. &nbsp; Her response: &nbsp;Do you feel better now? &nbsp;<br>No validation. &nbsp;No empathy. &nbsp;No feelings really at all. &nbsp; But I&apos;ve moved past it.

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• TM

  @Tmcsinger91 · 2 years ago

  I can relate to so much of this . I grew up having my feelings invalidated and dismissed but if I try to confront people about it they gaslight me 😢

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• MA

  @marinakiell1069 · 2 years ago

  I only have the “What do you want from me?”reaction towards my mom, it’s not widespread

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• TR

  @tripleabattery2914 · 2 years ago

  7 for 7 huh... time to bring it up in therapy🚶🏾‍♂️

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• BA

  @BamelaAnderson · 6 months ago

  My dad unalived himself a week before my 14th birthday and a month later my mom was already with some new guy. Then she moved him in and he started doing renovations to our home. <br>She wonders why I would rather risk going homeless than moving back to Indianapolis to live with her. <br>Then she married this guy when i was 17 and he was trying to control me... so I left. My best friend at the time gave me my 1st safe space as an adult and moved me to Vegas later on.<br>Before I moved here I had a DUI and a felony. <br>My mom has always been judgemental and does not respect boundaries. Then she&apos;ll go silent when things don&apos;t go her way. It&apos;s mind games. I am currently opening this baggage with my therapist. I should send her this.

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