@Jynx it is challenging. It just shows you that it’s not just my mum, I have other relatives. More shit happens in my extended family than I would like to admit. My mum’s SIL 1 is the reason why her relationship with her brother was estranged. I never got to know him, and I am still bitter about it, it’s too late, he’s gone. My mum’s SIL 1 is a really toxic person so I never see her, she doesn’t feel like family. You can kind of see why my mum may have trust issues. The stuff with SIL 1, MIL and even some relatives.
@Snowie I feel like SA is hard at any age.I’m glad you have your hubby, hon. Having support helps. I was young but not as young as you. I still behaved like an adolescent at the time, like many 19-20 year olds do. Since I had other shit happening at the time with bipolar being out of whack, I never processed it until years later. It’s also hard to process things when trauma happens over time. You learn to detach. I was probably sometime is my early twenties when I came to the realisation. I never felt like it happened to me, it was so weird. It felt like it was someone else’s story. I’m not sure what brought it about to be honest, I think coming to that realisation something really wrong happened caused my MH to take a turn. I do believe it played a role in my very frequent self harming behaviour even before I processed it, I just didn’t make the connection
