This was one of my earliest posts as I started to explore the impact of my childhood through blogging. I am reblogging some older post for newer readers.
After spending this evening reading several posts from children of narcissists I’ve been really considering what self blame is about. As a child I learned to be very scared and to hide anything that went wrong from my parents, its taken me a long time to realise it just wasn’t safe to do so…
Much has been coming to light as my therapy is deepening about traumas that happened to my body.. at one point I was swung around so hard that my arm was torn out of its socket..on another I suffered third degree burns to my foot due to one of my mothers manic cleaning frenzies on a caravanning holiday…. it was hard to relax and just be, as we were constantly on edge trying to live up to impossible standards of perfection.
For the past eight years following a major head trauma after very painful incidents with my narcissistic family and following…
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