Dealing with Family Trauma setting me back
I’m 36 years old, and I’ve gone to therapy over the last couple of years, which has helped me a lot. Through that process, I’ve realized that what I thought was a learning disability when I was younger may have been more connected to the very unhealthy home life I grew up in between my parents.
I remember internalizing a lot of hurt when I was younger. Growing up, I thought, and my family thought, that I had ADD. But now that I’m going to school for my bachelor’s degree, I’ve come across a lot of things that point toward the unsafe environment I was in being a major reason for many of my learning difficulties.
That, along with being emotionally stunted by my parents in different ways well into early thirties, has really painted me into a corner in life. That corner looked like not going to school for a long time, working entry-level jobs, and then feeling like I did not “amount to much.” In turn, that has also made dating harder.
Has anyone else been through something similar?