What is a childhood/teenage experience that has traumatized you?

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Reorx · Accepted Answer

I was molested by my sister & her best friend ages 4-12, until I was strong enough to fight them off; if I didn't do what they wanted I was smothered with a pillow, pinned down by their knees until I passed out. I told my older brother what was happening, got slapped in the face & endured it years after never telling another person until much later. I still have major issues subconsciously sabotaging any chance for love.. Therapy? Been there 3 times, first lady was some major attraction between us, she referred me to another Dr that hated me on sight, the 3rd was a man hating feminists, after that I gave up on therapy.

AaronKrieger · Accepted Answer

Being chased with a knife and threatened by my older sister's boyfriend while being babysat by him a few times. I never reacted to it harshly, but it just made me fear him being around my family. Despite that I also trusted him to a degree due to him treating me good half the time.

I didn't know until years later that he's bipolar, which explained a lot (Not him being violet, but impulsive and unpredictable). I don't hold anything against him, yet sometimes get nightmares about the guy, lmao.

electromagnetic · Accepted Answer

One time when I was younger, I was told not to go on the computer since my dad was using it.
When he walked away, I went onto the computer and he was reading a new article about worms coming out of children’s bodies. I couldn’t ready at the time but the pictures I saw were prettt much enough to put me off worms forever. I don’t go outside of rainy days, I don’t watch shows that have them and I cannot view and or hold.

DancingQueen16 · Accepted Answer

It was when a girl who I thought was my best friend ditched me at the start of middle school and now it's really hard for me to make new friends and even before that happened it was hard to make friends because I was bullied a lot in kindergarten and first grade

TheorionMage · Answer

Selfish juvenile pedophilia by a female grandparent; NOT as 'instructional experience'.
I was an animate 'thing' used to amuse her in secret. And, my naive report to parents not taken seriously due to dependent living arrangements. The 'price' for the residence continuance~ "Oh, old women don't DO THAT..." >:(

ProbablyClueless · Answer

Too many to write out, but there were several instances of bullying that legitimately changed me as a person.

I had a "friend" think it would be funny to get 35-40 people in on a joke to try and convince me that he was addicted to cocaine for a month.
A group of friends thought it would be funny to tell a woman I was interested in in 7th grade that I had remained obsessed with her through 11th grade.
Another friend thought it would be funny to tell the school that I had herpies.

And that's not even including the stuff that went on at home. I'm actually legitimately shocked that I survived childhood, as I look back on things in hindsight.

LiamJHayden · Answer

At 16 - hit by a car in a crosswalk. Compound fracture of my right tibia.

Still at 16, while recovering, mom was diagnosed with cancer in her liver, pancreas, and central nervous system. She died six weeks later.

At 19, dad died when a cerebral aneurysm burst.

MementoMori777 · Answer

i used to rob drug dealers and it would go wrong sometimes, not going detailed but it was somewhat traumatizing at first until i kinda got used to it, you dont ever fully get used to it tho I've also seen a few dead bodies once as a kid and as i grew older, i think if it now tho and its ineffective, like a numbness

236color · Answer

Being bullied as a child. I'm 63 years old and I still HATE the people that bullied me. Don't tell me to forgive, don't tell me I'm only hurting myself, I know. If I could let it go I would.

Nikki1989 · Answer

I was abandoned by my parents when I was 12. That shit stays with you forever.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I don’t believe my child hood experiences traumatized me, I believe it made me stronger and smarter. If I did not have the problems I had as a child, I would not have the survival skills I have as an adult.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

I almost drowned in Mingo Creek Park at age 11.

Anonymous · Answer

Being stabbed and molested by my older sister and a friend of my mom

Being abandoned by parents

Being isolated indoors for a lot of my youth because of my rare respiratory disease

Being completely overlooked and neglected which is a given as a middle child

Being violently attacked by a neighbors dog when I was 5 while my siblings and the neighbor just watched “ chewed my arm to the bone”

Wise4myage · Answer

My father dying when I was just six years old. That feeling of abandonment never leaves me.

Anonymous · Answer

My mom pretended to kill herself and blamed me for it infront of me and then laughed at me when I started crying...

abc3643 · Answer

My first broken heart just before I turned 19. I changed my life forever.

Anonymous · Answer

sex shit with older people at some point i was fat & shy (cos i was fat) and people werent that nice to me at school cause of that

MemeSupreme · Answer

if i ever got in trouble at school or embarassed my parents in public then i couldn't eat at all that day once i got home

DaBiggestBird · Answer

They put gay stuff in Positive Prevention. Truly the experience of all time.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Fighting. It started as a kid and ended when I stood up for myself. Or so I thought at the time..

Anonymous · Answer

I was gang raped by someone I thought was a friend. Him & his buddies held me down & took turns brutalizing me.

TrillXHippy · Answer

Being bullied. Why so serious? Why don’t you smile? Stop being angry. Why so quiet?

Shy_Steve · Answer

I use to get told to be Qiuet a lot by my Dad when I was younger, So that has made me Shy.

msc545 · Answer

Being bullied by an adult male teacher when I was 7 years old.

exitseven · Answer

I was hit by a car and almost died.

strateguy632 · Answer

too awful to write about... not pain but shame.

Anonymous · Answer

Being made to live with a pedophile.

Minahh · Answer

1. My narcissistic ex 2. Manipulative guy

Charliefretz329 · Answer

My psychotic mother abusing us.

BLP11520 · Answer

I had several but will not share openly

Anpu23 · Answer

Abducted, raped and nearly killed.

joeND · Answer

fondling age 6

monghjay2 · Answer

not ending them

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