Name change for this as I fear may be outing but long time poster.
So I've been though the mill a bit recently with my mental health and being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder that I have a mental health nurse help me with and also a psychiatrist.
Having had this diagnoses has confirmed a lot for me, but also made me think back on my past which has being exceptionally painful and this is hard to type but I need some support and advice.
I've always thought my mum emotionally abused me ( and she still is very emotionally manipulative but I have learnt to say no to her) but I have realised I had a lot of suppressed memories and they are all of her physically attacking me.
One that pains me is being really young and changing the channel on the television. She laid into me and started to push me up the stairs, and while doing this pulling my hair, where she then told me to stay in my room and called me a selfish cow. I want to cry remembering this because it is so painful to remember. She used to smack me as a child and then when I mentioned how much it affected me once she told me I was a sensitive child.
As a teenager she laid in to me and physically attacked me for being home late. In my defence I threw a cup of water at her. My dad stood and watched and it was never mentioned again.
I remember her squaring up to me a lot and trying to intimidate me also.
I for years blocked this out , and thought it was normal. I am one of five children and she has never laid a finger on any of them. I'm the eldest.
A few years back I didn't speak to her for a week because I brought some of this stuff up and she essentially denied it all.
I'm at a loss for what to do...I've come to all these horrid conclusions at nearly 30. It's so hard because if I spoke about this to anybody they wouldn't believe me.
I think this has contributed to me having BPD.
Please someone give me advice on how to approach this, I feel very mentally week and not sure if I should get some counselling or something?
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