My DM has been through various tests recently for memory problems and is currently seeing a psychologist as they believe there to be other issues.
I need to be with her for these psychology sessions as (mainly) she wants me to and also due to her memory she can't answer all their questions and sometimes they ask me to expand/explain her answers.
It's having a really negative effect on me since it started. Having to go through my rubbish childhood and having to tell/explain things to DM that she has forgotten over the years is very hard.
DM has no empathy, I'm not being mean, she's lovely and I love her to bits, she's not a horrible person but she just does not understand that other people have emotions and never has. So we sit there and go through all the crap from the past, and we focus on how to help her and when we leave it doesn't occur to her to ask how I am or how it's affecting me.
Since its started I've been feeling really low and distant.
So what can I do to stop this feeling?
I'm sure that my childhood still influences me everyday and I want, I need it, to stop.
I'm almost 30 and I feel pathetic to let the past do this to me.
I read on here about the truly awful things that some people go through as children and I feel even more pathetic to still have baggage when other people go through so much worse.
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How can I move on from a rubbish childhood?
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NaraDeer · 24/05/2016 17:52
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