…just to make you smile. One of my favourite videos on youtube ever.

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“Something’s not right with me, but I don’t know what it is.”

“I had a fine childhood. I should be feeling and doing better than I am.”

“I should be happier. What is wrong with me?”

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Childhood emotional neglect (CEN): A parent’s failure to respond enough to a child’s emotional needs.

You can see from this definition why CEN is so hard to detect. Since it’s not a parent’s act but a parent’s failure to act, it’s not an event. It’s not something that happens to a child; it’s something that fails to happen for a child. Therefore, it’s not visible, tangible or memorable.

To further complicate things, it is often caring and loving parents who fail their children this way; parents who mean well, but were emotionally neglected by their own parents.

[…] 

CEN can take an infinite number of different forms. […] But I have noticed a certain pattern of struggles which CEN folks tend to share. The pattern includes feelings of emptiness, difficulty relying upon other people, self-directed anger and blame, and problems with self-discipline, among others.

Because the cause of CEN is so subtle and invisible, many CEN people look back upon a “fine childhood” with loving parents, and see no explanation for why they feel this way. This is why they so often blame themselves for their difficulties, and feel a deep sense of being somehow secretly flawed.

The good news about childhood emotional neglect is that once you become aware of it, it is entirely possible to heal from it. But since CEN is so hard to recognize, it can be quite difficult to see it in your own childhood.

Check the entire article here

fffcuk:

what doesn’t kill you fucks you up mentally and affects your ability to have stable relationships with other human beings

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fromonesurvivortoanother:

lots of love this mother’s day for everyone who has a complex relationship with their mom, everyone who has ceased communication with their mom for reasons of self-preservation, and every person whose mom is deceased

Domestic Violence advert, speak up, be heard

con-affetto-kiko:

A series of prototype posters I did to address verbal abuse.

I was kind enough to have willing models and a great photographer. Thank you for all your help.

xstravelcholic:

extra-bread:

I really like these.

This is so cute!

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gothemoscene:

good morning, my ESG’s ^-^ <3

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I’m going to link to my story. My submission is extremely long so I posted it to my own anon mental health specific blog. I hope you don’t mind. I’m ready for a wider audience on this submission. Thanks very much.
http://bipolarcondition.tumblr.com/post/45490024324/mental-abuse-and-bipolar

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Comment: Thank you for sharing your story :)

I assume by “platonic emotional abuse”, the submitter refers to any kind of emotional abuse that doesn’t happen inside a sexual relationship (boyfriend/girlfriend, partners, spouses, concubinage etc.). I made a small post about Forms of Abuse / Definitions some time ago. I’ll try to make a more detailed overview about subcategories of emotional abuse as defined in professional literature asap. 

I had always thought that submissions were anonymous except if someone wrote their name in the post. Just now I’ve realized that that’s not the case…

If you’d like to remain anon, either submit while not logged in tumblr (you can invent any email address) or tell me to post it anon.

mrsmelchiorgabor:

this is what heterophobia would look like if it was real. if you believe that heterophobia is a real thing that exists, please watch this because you will see that it simply doesn’t exist, that it never has and never will. 

tbh I think everyone should watch this anyway because it’s very clever and very powerful