Dear Justina:

You are welcome!

You wrote: “I’m just afraid of people. Physically afraid, for some reason… My mother was a verbal abuser, not physical towards me or my brother”-

– verbal abuse is physical too because we get scared, and getting scared is very much a physical process and as you know, fear, ongoing fear aka anxiety physically feels very badly, doesn’t it?

Everything we experience is physical, really, even thoughts are physical events. It is just that we can’t see thoughts. It is similar to air- it is physical even though we can’t see it, and quite powerful when it moves fast, as in a wind storm.

“Being away at school.. I’ve been leaning on both of them”- how have you been leaning on your mother?

Another question (and feel free to not answer any of my questions): what kind of verbal abuse did she use against you personally, and does she still?

anita