Is this severe abuse?
Trigger warnings: CSA, child abuse, neglect, rape & SA, Intimate partner violence, suicidal behaviour, bullying
I have Complex PTSD and DID and have written a memoir about my experiences. I submitted it with the hope of being published and I have said that I was severely abused and traumatised in childhood and adulthood. What I mean by that is that I have had a lot of experiences that qualify as abuse and trauma that caused my conditions.
These include being emotionally, physically, and sexually abused my father including digital rape. Witnessing my father engage in intimate partner violence towards my mother. Having a mother who was an alcoholic - she emotionally abused me, was sometimes absent, and slit her wrists in front of me once.
When I was ten or eleven I was fully raped by a male family acquaintance and just had to forget about it.
When I was fifteen my older male manager bullied me and fully raped me at work.
I was terribly bullied throughout my schooling by both teachers and students. One student sexually assaulted me when i was eleven.
I was raped three times as an adult and sexually assaulted twice more
I experienced intimate partner violence. He pushed me a couple of times, intimidated me, detroyed my things and made holes in walls, and once destroyed our house and intimidated me with a knife.
I just feel sick and feel like I'm exaggerating because it's not like I was stabbed. I just wonder if a lot of people have had experiences like this and that doesn't make it "severe "
Posted Jul 2, 2025, 1:52 AM UTC