where does the extreme fear of abandonment comes from?
i dont understand where mine comes from, i understand early childhood enviroment is key to this, but i dont remember anything extra traumatic from my childhood? for example my parents arent divorced.
my earliest memory is me standing sideways in a sliding door trying to close it on myself thinking if it would kill me? i was very little so like 4 or 5 yrs old. after that i remember my moms family making fun of me for my weight a lot until i was like???? 13? and she never defended me either so i felt really really alone all my childhood, also my dad having to leave weeks for work and i dont remember this but ive been told i would cry a lot. i felt very scared of my mom so i never told her anything that was happening to me. i remember a bunch of other situations too but i think those are more related to my need of constant validation. i was also severely bullied from 10 to 14 yrs old. after my first year of bullying my best friend changed schools so i was alone for a year then i made another friend. i remember when i was like 8 having my first crush on a boy and feeling very jealous of my best friend cuz she also liked him. she became a little too mean to me but i wouldnt call it bullying.
i remember being taken to a psychologist at age 10 and she told i had "catastrophic thinking", i remember being a very quiet girl and trying my best to be a good daughter but never feeling enough. it feels as if ive been sad all my life?
oh and my mom told me once that when i was born until i was probably like 3 my grandma from dads side used to compare me a lot to one of my cousins, putting me down to make him seem better type of stuff. which led to him being a pain in the ass to me all the way thru school.
as i said, i see why i want constant validation and want everyone to like me. but the fear of abandonment??? yea the bullying was severe but not early enough in my childhood??? also after all these years im starting to be over it. i dont think about them anymore. i feel like the things i went thru arent enough for me to be this way. yes ive had people leave before and yes it felt like i was dying but i mean why do i have this reaction. where could this fear come from???