Does abuse from a younger sibling count as abuse?
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Anonymous
November 23rd, 2020 12:54am
Abuse can mean physically mentally emotionally from anyone including your siblings. If you’re feeling this way it is important that you reach out to help specially if it’s physically. Emotional abuse is not OK either if you are going through this it is important that you seek help so that the situation doesn’t worsen. Sometimes when we’re growing up we may fight with her siblings but if it’s going to an extreme war you feel like they are abusing you and you’re not getting away from the abuse and it is not a joke than you do you need to reach out to someone
Anonymous
August 31st, 2021 10:54pm
Of course it counts. Any abuse from anyone is abuse in any shape or form. No person, place or thing can change that. Its all valid and it requires the same care as any other situation.
I have not personally been in that situation but i know it can be challenging. And this can be with multiple different ages and have different levels of gravity but still all be considered abuse.
whether its 2 and 4 or 12 and 15. It can happen all sorts of ways. We all have different ways of navigating. These situations can be challenging. And i think shame may even come into it, because they are younger. But there is no shame in it. Abuse is abuse and should be brought to light so that whoever is hurt can heal. sometimes it IS the younger sibling is hurting so bad they lash out not knowing how to deal with what they are feeling. Just some thoughts
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