What is the defining trauma of your life?

[Anonymous]

-My back to back ectopic pregnancies, one of which almost killed me. It feels so random and cruel that I now have no tubes and must rely on Ivf to have a child.
- being treated poorly by my in-laws. They are racist and did not want their son to marry me, an Asian immigrant.
- being cheated on by my husband who I implicitly trusted with all my heart.

I’d like to say I’ve come out stronger. And in many ways, perhaps I have. But I wish I could still believe in love, and have hope that things would work out for me.

[Anonymous]

IEP meetings

[Anonymous]

My life beginning at about age 3 onwards. One huge trauma.

[Anonymous]

My Dad dying when I was 11, suddenly. That I itself was traumatic but when he died I found out he had been married before and had 4 other kids. My mom really only told my brother and I because they were adults and wanted to come to his funeral. We’ve had minimal contact but I am fb friends with 2 of them. My mum still acts like they are these terrible people but nothing they did was their fault. She makes me feel guilty for wanting a connection. I have my own child now and she’s adopted. Everything we know about her bio family we share. I’ll never lie to her about family stuff.

[Anonymous]

Parent died when I was a preschooler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My life beginning at about age 3 onwards. One huge trauma.

+2

Birth-~34

Doing well now. But boy was it hell

[Anonymous]

My brother being killed in a horrific accident when we were young.

[Anonymous]

Parent dying of a painful illness as a young child. Watching them die, growing up without them, not having support.

[Anonymous]

Kidnapped and assaulted at age 16 + then having to testify in both Juvenile+ Common Pleas Court because there were 2 attackers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kidnapped and assaulted at age 16 + then having to testify in both Juvenile+ Common Pleas Court because there were 2 attackers.

Oh my god, I am so sorry.

[Anonymous]

Emotional neglect and bullying in childhood. Certainly not shocking or extreme like the other comments here but they’ve had lifelong repercussions.

[Anonymous]

I really don’t think I’ve had any? Certainly none that reach the level of the ones written here. My heart breaks for some of these PPs.

[Anonymous]

My mom was emotionally abusive but on the outside a "perfect mom". This the contributed to me being sexually abused at 13, severe eating disorders, and more. I got intensive therapy at 21 after a paper in college helped me sort through my feelings. Im 37 now and very happily married. I'm happy and proud of my life now but there are lingering issues at times and I resent a lot of my childhood and wish things could have been different. But I try to live with the mindset that if things were different, I likely wouldn't have the life. I have now.

[Anonymous]

Being raised in garbage (literally) and being molested repeatedly as a child.

[Anonymous]

My sister died in an accident when I was a baby. I was too young to remember but it was a defining moment in my life because it changed my parents and my family dynamic irrevocably.