I hear that!!!!

Yea, i know, i feel the same way. It is unjustified, i hope G-D has some bigger plan for us out there.

I am totally with you! 1 in 3 woman have or will have experience in there lifetime with emotional, sexual, physical abuse and rape. Just count through. It shocks me every time.

I agree with you I suffered both sexual and physical abuse only now getting therapy. Still maybe theyare both suffering now as they are dead

Yes, it's so true. I feel like such "damaged-goods" a lot in my life, b/c well, I truly am, sexually-abused starting at around 2 by a family-member on and off for years.
My Dad (didn't sexually-abuse me) was angry A LOT while I was growing-up, chasing me with wooden-spoons, hit me with a huge board on the arms while "Mom" stood-by and cried but that was it. Put-me down, nothing was (and is) ever good-enough, even though my Brother's and I are college-degreed, etc. One of my Brother's is making 6 figure's as a Oil-Executive, travelling the world, speaks 9 languages, etc. and yesterday he told me that the don't think HE'S good-enough, now the complaint (after he's reached all the goals they set-out/expected him to do) is that "You're working too hard" and not in a kind, caring way. I could write a novel. Sorry this is so long. But SO many times I find myself thinking, "Am I bi-polar? Do I need meds? What's WRONG with me???!!!" I need counseling and probably meds. but have no insurance. Aaargh!

That is too true. I did the therapy and now the meds, and funny as long as I stay around this a-h not all the therapy or meds in the world are helping. He needs to be therapized in a locked facility somewhere where they withhold food preferably LOL

What gave me therapy was putting his A** in jail. He's not living his life right now and maybe that will make him realize it's him with the problem because I'm not in jail!!!!!

I hope that you are not looking at therapy as a bad thing. I am not a therapist, but I have benefitted greatly from it. Without having been abused, I might never have gotten there and there are so many issues I have worked out in my therapist's office - not just the ones related to abuse.

Did you know that most psychiatrists and therapists also have therapists? Any time you are in a stressful job or dealing with people's hurts like a therapist will, it takes a toll on you. Doctors, nurses and other health care professionals often see therapists to help work through the trauma of one of their patients.

Therapy, as a whole, is something that most people could benefit from at least once in their lives, because all of us go through difficult life issues and could use help in sorting those out.