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When family members deny your experience of abuse

I'm starting to realize my father was emotionally abusive and it's changing how I see my whole childhood but my mother insists I'm being dramatic and remembering things wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Truth-telling about family trauma meets systematic invalidation from those who need the dysfunction to remain hidden.

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