Dysfunctional Family

[Jazzy]

When you grow up in a dysfunctional family, you experience trauma and pain from your parents' actions, words, and attitudes. Because of this trauma you experienced, you grew up changed, different from other children, missing important parts of necessary parenting that prepare you for adulthood, missing parts of your childhood when you were forced into unnatural roles within your family. For some of you, it has led you to attempt to flee the pain of your past by alcohol or drug use. Others of you feel inexplicably compelled to repeat the abuses that were done to you on your own children or with your own spouse. Others of you have felt inner anxiety or rage, and don't know why you feel as you do.



Have any of you experienced this?





Link used to ask the question: http://www.mudrashram.com/dysfunctionalfamily2.html

 

[The Dragon Master]

No I haven't, but it sounds like an awful place to grow up in :-/

 

[Nebulous]

My family was highly dysfunctional. My childhood has some painful memories that I dont really care to share.