I had some trauma in my childhood just curious whether anyone else is in the same boat.
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Too many to mention.
It hunts me right now 
What was your about?
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Yes. When I was healthier, it was all forgotten.
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Well for one my sister has borderline personality disorder and would gas light my parents so they would fight all the time nothing physical just a lot to deal with as a young kid. Also I got catfished at like 14 two years later HSI came knocking on my door trying to give me a grand jury subpoena I dodged that my mom went instead with a lawyer. HSI was really mad and they were following my parents around. Even going to their workplace asking for them which was just weird to deal with as a kid. I’m sure people have worst ones. Maybe this will encourage others to tell their stories.
I would guess that about 100% of the people on this site have childhood trauma.
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Except no one will share I’m sure plenty have seen this post.
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I had an alcoholic father who would always get in fights with my mom at dinner. My mom would cry and run upstairs. My brothers kinda bullied me to. I’ll never forget my brother pinning me down and spitting in my mouth
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Not everyone wants to discuss their childhood trauma. And lots of people don’t feel theirs is extreme enough to qualify as trauma.
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I think it helps to talk about it though and mine really isn’t that bad. For others maybe it’s so bad they just don’t want to share
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That sucks sorry to hear that having an alcoholic dad must have been hard that’s worse than mine.
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My stepdad tortured me for years. He had a burning hatred for his gay brother for causing him trouble in high school (I guess he got made fun of a little bit) and he slammed me around on a weekly sometimes daily basis. He’s become an insane conspiracy theorist and I need to cut him off but he’s the caretaker for my brother who just came down with sz, so I’m forced to stay in contact with him in order to see my brother.
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When I was really young, we had eight cats (mostly out or indoor/outdoor). Within a few months, I had premonitions (dreams/nightmares whatever you want to call them) about each of them passing 1-4 days before they died. There were other things, probably more akin to what you would consider “trauma” but that’s what sticks in my head the most. That and one of my classmates was beaten to death with a hammer but at that point, what happened (the reality of it) had to sink in as I was older and still trying to keep my hallucinations and reality apart. I still am but I had less experience doing it at that point.
My biggest bad memory was when my father left us, I was 4 years old. I’m 52 now and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
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My father worked as electrician for Army. He was months absent from home.
Mother said that it took me hours to remember him when he gets home…
But when he changed job, he was coming home angry, and demanding us to stop playing, and be quiet, or beat us.
Oh, yes indeed sir.
Talking about it only helps some people. I’m of the opinion that my past is the past. It happened, talking about it won’t rewrite it. Just dredges up memories better left forgotten.
Besides, the future has yet to be written.
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That baggage weighs too much to carry everywhere. Gotta unpack it.
I have had trauma, but I don’t have any interest in discussing it here, as @Ninjastar said.
What is catfished?
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I actually don’t think I had any childhood trauma. Maybe some bullying from my older brother, but it was mild.