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You are grown. It is time to leave things of childhood behind and to move away from abusers.
Quite honestly you have now to be responsible for taking care of yourself and not martyring yourself to your abuser, and it sounds like that is exactly what you are doing.
Pat yourself on the back because it is terribly hard to leave well -worn, well-taught paths the abuser plows through your brain.
When you can look at her and know that she is a failure, a sad creature who is limited by her own abuse or her genes or both, so that she could not be a mother, so that she could not earn ever the love and admiration and thanks of her child--does it get more sad than that--when you can look at her and feel sorry for her you will know you have grown and nurtured yourself to healing.
We all hear the bad. We can hear 1,000 good things about ourselves, but that one bad thing will ring in our heads over and over again. We who are well know our own limitations, and no one is harder on ourselves than we are. And when we hear one negative word it feeds that awful alien within us that says "I am no good. I am no darned good". For those of us who grew up in abuse (I am not one) that voice must be very loud and very strong and very hard to stamp out. But with help it can be done.
So I felt I had to chime in.
1. An abused person should NOT be a caregiver for the abuser.
2. In the case of "verystressedout" I think the best way for her to communicate with the caregivers is by texting them.
I'm glad to see this question because every morning I wake up thinking about things my father has said to me. It is like I'm having an argument with him in my head. I'm not sure how to stop this. I usually just try to focus on something fun and joyful or call a friend. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I hate the damage that has been done to those of us! It is life altering. Blessings to you!
“I realized that I was giving my NParents NSupply in absentia, and they would be delighted to know I was thinking of them. So I stopped.”
“I think of my mom’s abusive words constantly.. but now, as I’ve been recommended, I think of what I'd like to have done all those years she abused me...”
It comes up now and again.
To forgive my mother, I adopted the phrase: "She did the best she could with who she was at the time".
Nah, she didn't.
So many years ago.
:)
Happy caregiving to everyone.
“I'm constantly arguing, it's like living in a house and we hate each other. One of us is an absolute bitch and I'm not sure which is me.”
“I am constantly having conversations with people who stress me out in my head. It’s a lot of arguing or explaining myself.”
But after many years of therapy, it's not the only 'voice in my head' and I don't acknowledge it.
Maybe some counseling could help you.
For me, days…Right now in fact, her words are in my head, and I reply in all sorts of ways. You know, they never admit they’re wrong, so you keep re-playing the conversation, in order to reason with them in your head, but then it turns out that also in your head they never say, “Sorry, you were right.” Instead, you re-live lots of versions of the abusive conversation, but every ending continues to remain frustrating.