Something I knew about – the emotional effects of psychological wounds on children, and how they manifest themselves later in adults. Imagine it – hearing your father, the very person you depend upon for your survival, wishing you dead. How terrifying that must be for a child, how traumatising – how your sense of self-worth would implode; and the pain would be too great, too huge to feel, so you’d swallow it, repress it, bury it. Over time you would lose contact with the origins of your trauma, dissociate the roots of its cause, and forget. But one day, all the hurt and anger would burst
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