I want help but I don’t want to seem like I’m looki my for attention, something is wrong with me,
TW: sexual abuse
I can make friends easily and then I can go into these ‘moods’ people would say.
i know I have abbondonement issues and I can be mean but I care way too much in friendships and relationships.
Im not sure if I take other peoples personalities.
Well I’ll start from the beginning.
I was first sexually molested at 8 then 12 & then 15 (last person being my dad)
During these times of exposing these peoples nothing was done and the blame was put onto me.
Growing up I had an unhealthy relationship with my mother - she does not love me due t the way she felt about my father during her pregnancy and was emotional Abusive growing up.
I’ve been in DV relationships and have two young children.
My biggest concerns are the fact I don’t know how to keep relationships whether friends or partners. I push people away. I care too much. I send long paragraphs and get continually ignored and that triggers me highly. I am very indecisive and sometimes if not a lot of times can be manipulative to get my way.
I done an online personalised test and said I may be protagonists I’m not sure how true but some resonate.
I blame myself for everything first before I blame others.
I have worries that cos my dad abused me that means I will become one because ain’t that how it happens. The abused becomes one?
I don’t have any sexual thoughts of children or desires at all. But it. Crosses my mind and then I make myself feel even worse.
When I was 10/11 I put my younger brother penis in my mouth - thinking I can practice what everyone in school spoke about- I didn’t do anything because it instantly felt wrong and I just put my lips on his penis.
I’ve never forgiven myself since feeling that I’m the most horrible person. He was 3 at the time I think. I never done anything like that or thought of anything like that again. And it makes me SICK.
All my life I’ve been sexual. Cousins. Family friends. You name it. Everyone was licking and sucking from the ages of 6 upwards. So I never really knew anything other than that. And when I used to visit my dads when I was 8/9 he had 100s of porn around on his computer and dvds laying around. He never used to hide them from me. At all.
I do feel there are gaps in my memory but I don’t know
I have a lot of people that hate and dislike me because of how I push them away. And even when I try to explain to them why the friendships or relationships broke down they don’t want to hear. And it’s just something I wouldn’t do to people.
[Edited by @QuietMagic 12/5/21 to add TW]
@determinedPlum6942 needing help and knowing that you need it is not seeking attention at all your just trying to help your self and its good that you know you need the help and im sorry your having a hard time
I'm really sorry you had/having a hard time, and what you going through. And it is very brave that you seeking help.
So, thank you for reaching out, feel free to message any time whenever you want to talk.
@determinedPlum6942
Hi, I'm really sorry that you've had to deal with so much. That's horrible that those people hurt you so much, and yet when you tried to hold them accountable they turned around and tried to blame their own awful actions on you. 😟
I definitely understand that experience of writing a lot, not having people respond, and feeling sort of like, "I poured out all of my feelings and explained things very clearly and yet you're ignoring all of it and don't care at all."
I don't think you're a bad person. You've had all kinds of experiences that nobody should have to have at such a young age (or any age in the case of the abuse and molestation). Of course that would have a pretty significant effect on you. And of course it would be much more difficult to trust people and have relationships after experiencing something like that. 💜 I hope that the trauma therapy is able to help.
Just wanted to share a couple 7 Cups resources:
Trauma Support subforum on sexual abuse
List of experienced listeners who accept chats on PTSD/trauma
Self-help guide on sexual abuse
Wow
thank you so much for your wonderful wonderful messages.
mum overwhelmed- in a positive way.
I do hope my therapy would help - which should be. I hadn’t said a few things out loud - other than this app and that alone has helped me so so much
so I know when I do speak to my doctor I will be ready.
Im ready to heal and to keep healing I don’t want to keep pushing people away and using my past as an excuse. I want to be okay now.
thank you I 💜
@determinedPlum6942
Glad that sharing on here has felt like something that might make it easier to share when you speak with your doctor. 😊
Make sense what you're saying that even if you have an understanding of "I'm struggling because of some horrible stuff that happened in my past", there's also this thought of, "I don't want to be hamstrung by this forever. I want to somehow find a way to move past this so that I can have a social life I'm happy with and start feeling better about things."