Parentification: Your Trauma as a Sensitive and Intense Person: The parents are unable to love the child the way they need to be loved. --- ... immature parents may be emotionally unstable, punitive,...

Humans have to be resilient in the face of adversity. The following lyric from Big Sean really resonates with me and E: "I grew up without a hammock." While I wish I'd had a hammock, I didn't. So I...

I finally put something into words that I hadn't been able to before. My Mom and Dad were able to opt out of their responsibilities as parents for months or even years at a time. Dad did it early in...

Back in 2004, I was traveling with my mom to Bangladesh, and we landed in Dubai for a layover. When it was time to take off her shoes and put them through the x-ray machine, my mom started yelling...

This happened when I was 15. I'm in my 40s now. My NMom was undiagnosed bipolar at the time (she's a terrible person even with that diagnosis. She'd gone back to her home country because her behavior...