Dear Katrine Nielsen:

Your anxiety started when you were 7, at home, living with your parents and older sister. But when you left for London on your own and lived there away from your family for 16 months, you felt a whole lot better: “For the first time in my life I started feeling like a normal person”.

Back home from London, back to your family, you were “back to Square one”. Square one included “severe anxiety, depression and stress” (August 12, 2020).

You shared back in Aug 12 last year about your childhood: “I’ve been experiencing bullying, physical and mental abuse, emotional blackmail and gaslighting”.

Today, in your most recent post, you explained (you did a good job explaining, thank you), that your mother understands being anxious about actual problematic/ dangerous situations like losing one’s job or home, but she doesn’t understand being anxious about every day things, like being afraid of taking a bus and sitting in the front, which is not an actual a problem/ danger.

I am wondering if she has been/ is aware of the actual problems/ dangers that you did experience as a child, including the actual “bullying, physical abuse” that you suffered, and I wonder how she reacted to those things happening to you…(?)

anita