Dear Katrine Nielsen:

When you were verbally abused, punched and bullied by your peers in school, and bullied by two teachers as well, your mother, or father, or both, told you “to ignore it and think about something else”.

You wrote: “I guess the pretending it doesn’t happen makes it go away, is easier in a way”- it was easier for your parents to pretend that the abuse you suffered did not happen because it didn’t happen to them.

The title of your thread is “Feeling betrayed”, referring to being betrayed by two friends, but seems to me that you were betrayed by two other people: your parents who allowed for you to be abused by others, not protecting you from the abuse you suffered in school.

You wrote regarding your parents: “They also took me to a child psychiatrist and he told them they were not to force me dealing with my anxiety. Which they didn’t.. the teachers would force me.. I went home and cut my wrist trying to regain some sense of control”-

– I don’t understand what you meant by what I italicized. Can you explain it to me?

anita