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#childhood emotional neglect
pain-is-my-game · 1 year
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Parents really do traumatize you and then force you to reparent yourself instead of being a capable human being who can contribute to society like a normal person. Sorry I can't get a well paying job right now I'm trying to learn coping mechanisms.
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Nobody is “too young” to be cynical or jaded or hate their life. There is no appropriate age for that. If someone is experiencing that at any age, their mental health is at risk. Doesn’t matter how young they are, or how easy their life seems. Just because existential dread didn’t hit you until later in life, doesn’t mean everyone else gets to be so lucky.
“You think life sucks now? Just wait until you’re grown” okay grandpa what if they don’t make it to adulthood? What if it gets worse until they only see one way out and they take it? Stop being dismissive. Stop forcing your problems onto young people and start taking them seriously about things. Period.
(Inspired by this post)
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zenwannabe · 1 year
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every so often i’ll accidentally invent the concept of a mom in my head like “wouldn’t it be so cool if there was a lady who was older and wiser who I could talk to about life and she’d be curious about my experiences and check in from time to time to see how I’m doing ohhhhhhh wait. Damnit.” 
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If you were emotionally neglected as a child you might think having a person obsessed with you will help fill that void for attention you never got. But what kind of attention is it? Is it nourishing attention? Usually it's about control, and they end up criticizing your every move. Remember, control reduces you to an object.
Respect > attention
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traumatizedmathilda · 9 months
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Every page in this book is like a kick to the gut, but it's also validating my experience so much. Its painful to realise what I lived through is exactly this and that there's no repairing that though.
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c-ptsdrecovery · 2 years
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Everybody’s symptoms are different, but these are some common ones.
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adhbabey · 1 year
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Emotional neglect is a parent giving you empty positivity and cheerleading you towards goals instead of providing support and being there when you struggle.
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foolishnpd · 4 months
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i throw up a little every time i get ignored
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loveluvrs · 7 months
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i obsess over things not because im an overly-emotional teenage girl, but because id otherwise be alone with my thoughts for too long. id be with the child in me who just wanted some comfort growing up, wanted someone to hold her when things got bad. but the people who were supposed to take care of me, hold me, they were the reason things got bad. and sometimes in the dead quiet i think of her again. i hear her sobs through her pillow, desperately trying to not be heard or seen. but that was all she wanted, to be seen. and it all gets a little too much, remembering that. so I bury myself in hyper fixations, too busy to think
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pain-is-my-game · 1 year
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One of the worst realizations that I have ever made is realizing that all I ever wanted was to be loved by my parents. I never would've turned out like this if they just loved me unconditionally.
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had to make another tweak but yea it’s very accurate
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"Not knowing how to be in a healthy relationship because of what you witnessed is traumatic." This post from Nedra Tawwab hits home in so many ways. For some of us, it really hurts to discover that we don't know the first thing about relationship dynamics, how relationships are meant to work, and how to protect ourselves when dealing with other people.
Most of the times, this discovery comes about when we are interested in becoming close to another person but find ourselves deeply insecure about how we should show up to the connection, ultimately causing us to back away, or try too hard for those who are not good for us. This potentially leads us into more distressing situations, if not wholly traumatic.
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As children one of the ways we coped with the emotional abandonment of a caretaker was to create a fantasy that if we were good enough they would have a wake up call and love us... we play this out in our adult relationships until we heal this
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my-love-is-a-lantern · 6 months
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I think I want love more than prestigious education and money. That's what childhood emotional neglect gave me.
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