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Artemis · 4w
I was such an "angry" child & had these "outbursts", yet I wasn't hitting, slapping, pushing, biting, or otherwise physically assaulting anyone. I was being punished for yelling when I felt someone wa...
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There was nothing wrong with me.

Yes, I was emotionally disregulated. That's what religious abuse did to me.

But there was nothing wrong with me.

My emotional disregulation was caused by the pressure to suppress my emotions & ignore my needs.

There was nothing wrong with me.
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Artemis · 4w
Religious abuse taught me to hate myself before I even knew who I was. We are all evil since birth, said the church leaders. The job of parents is to punish the evil out of their children, they said. I was so young, so innocent, & so desperate to please & to be loved. So I absorbed it all. I belie...