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Mental Health Support

Golden Raisin

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3. Totally understand and wish you healing.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Sun Jun 21, 2020, 10:49 AM

Jun 2020

Father's Day is always hard for me as mine was narcissistic, cold, severe, emotionally abusive, etc. He died when I was 16. I'm now 70 and still have emotional scars. It has lessened over the years.

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Fathers' Day [View all] no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 OP

It is awful how much damage a bad parent can do.... Freedomofspeech Jun 2020 #1

Thanks. The abuse has stopped. The pain is ebbing away. no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #2

Totally understand and wish you healing. Golden Raisin Jun 2020 #3

Hugs to you as a compatriot. no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #5

I can totally identify cpamomfromtexas Jun 2020 #4

I can totally relate vercetti2021 Jun 2020 #6