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Can anyone recommend a self help book or information on dealing with past childhood emotional neglect or something along those londs

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MooKnee · 03/10/2019 11:58

As the title said, looking for some help or advice on dealing with and overcoming my negative feelings now in relation to feeling let down or neglected by my parents (through no fault of their own , mum with mental health and dad working a lot)
I just feel I have some issues now around my parenting, resentment to parents, trying to take on too much parenting so much children love me to the detriment of their dad who is willing and loving and present.
Basically feel let down, and sorry for myself because it felt like no one cared enough to be there for me, even though I know it wasn’t meant to be like that.
Can’t afford counselling and nhs only offer wellbeing practitioner sessions for cbt for anxiety:depression, I’m not feeling either but I do feel I need to deal with it

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MooKnee · 03/10/2019 14:12

Would this be better in another section?

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PeninsulaPanic · 03/10/2019 15:17

Beverly Engel writes a lot about childhood neglect, and even though she veers quite a lot into outright abuse in different forms, she's very readable and you'd probably learn from her work in a way that you could apply to working on yourself. Her own memoir is absorbing ('Raising Myself'). Also, once you start to look for her books on amazon, it'll give you recommendations for other titles by writers with similar themes. One good one is 'The Emotionally Absent Mother' by Jasmin Lee Cori. You'll no doubt identify with some of the traits and effects she identifies, even if you don't want to make your mother 'wrong' Flowers

MooKnee · 03/10/2019 16:31

Thank you for your suggestion and I’ll take a look

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