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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom had a mental breakdown when I was about 12. I know how bad it was because she went out to the Mayo clinic for treatment, and did ECT three times a week for a year.

I never had people over because I was ashamed. During the ECT, my mom forgot my name constantly and got me mixed up with my much thinner sister, and constantly told me (thinking I was my sister) that I had gotten fat and ugly.

My mom is fine now, and doesn't seem to realize that the years we spent with her when she wasn't fine aren't going to just go away, and that we will always remember them and that they greatly impacted us.[/quote]

This is one of the things that pisses me off: my mom's mental illness made our childhood hellacious. Yet, we only ever hear that she's a victim. There has never been any acknowledgment that she said and did things that scarred us for life.[/quote]

Same thing here.  My dad was an alcoholic and my mom bipolar (though diagnosed only with depression when I was a kid...it wasn't till adulthood and learning about my brother's bipolar illness did I recognize her daily rages as a type of bipolar madness.  Anyway, she was a professional victim of my dad's drinking...spent 4-5 nights/week at AL Anon telling tales of woe.  All the while my dad was working full time plus doing all the housework and walking on eggshells with us trying to figure out how to prevent her next rage.  In terms of damaging us, she was much worse than him.  Yet she never apologizes.  She's the only victim in her mind.[/quote]

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