Funny how there is this one thing that I'm still carrying around with me, even after 32 years.

How do you think should a mother react when her daughter comes home with her first broken heart?

#MentalHealth #EmotionalNeglect #ChildhoodNeglect

I am #writing a thing to try to process some complex and bothersome issues. At least the title is good. 😉 #MentalHealth #EmotionalNeglect

Emotional maltreatment and neglect impact neural activation upon exclusion in early and mid-adolescence: An event-related fMRI study
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421001681

#ChildhoodTrauma #emotionalneglect
#Intimatepartnerviolence
#neuroimaging

一個重要且有用的工具：How CARE Tools Are Being Used to Address Brain Injury and Mental Health Struggles With Survivors of Domestic Violence https://journals.lww.com/headtraumarehab/Abstract/2022/01000/How_CARE_Tools_Are_Being_Used_to_Address_Brain.13.aspx https://www.odvn.org/brain-injury/
#ChildhoodTrauma #emotionalneglect
#Intimatepartnerviolence
#DomesticViolence
#tools

Brain injury in women experiencing intimate partner-violence: neural mechanistic evidence of an “invisible” trauma https://doi-org.ezproxy.u-paris.fr/10.1007/s11682-016-9643-1

#ChildhoodTrauma #emotionalneglect
#Intimatepartnerviolence

Structural Brain Alterations in Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
https://doi.org/10.1177/088626052095962

#ChildhoodTrauma #emotionalneglect
#Intimatepartnerviolence

The best thing that happened to me in 2022 is that it finally became clear to me that the #emotionalneglect I experienced as a child, and the beliefs about myself that it engendered, have done me profound harm. I realized that for my entire life I've felt myself to be unlovable (and unlikeable) unless I'm useful. Of course, I realized this through being triggered by the cruelty of LITERALLY THE ONLY PERSON ON THE PLANET that I trusted unconditionally.

So, yeah. 2023 is going to be better.

#writing without a support network isn't easy. I've been doing it since I was 18 because building one seems even harder.

Why? People taught me how to write, but nobody bothered to teach me how to relate to people or build a support network because I was a "smart boy" and should have been able to figure it out myself. I didn't.

This isn't an #autistic issue; lots of #neurotypical men have the same problem, and I suspect this is a consequence of widespread #EmotionalNeglect.

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@bookstodon

#writing without a support network isn't easy. I've been doing it because building s support network seems even harder.

Why? People bothered to teach me how to write, but nobody bothered to teach me how to relate to people or build a support network because I was a "smart boy" and should have been able to figure it out myself.

This isn't an #autistic issue; lots of #neurotypical men have the same problem, and I suspect this is a consequence of widespread #EmotionalNeglect.

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ITM Everyone! Childhood neglect impacts your self esteem, your ability to regulate your emotions, your future relationships and even your health. Explore strategies to begin #healing from that #trauma #docsnipes #neglect #emotionalneglect
https://youtu.be/q9BboNjerZc