My mother had schizophrenia. She was a perfectionist at times and could get very impatient, but was an angel compared to the sick people I had to deal with, when I grew up. She could get violent, without meaning to, and threw a book at me once. I forgive her. She wasn’t deliberately evil, like everyone else is.
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I thought multiple personalities was directly linked to trauma? Isn’t that proof you can’t always beat it?
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I had a pretty shitty childhood. I don’t think my siblings and I were every a priority to my parents and they were too busy with their own illnesses and abuse towards each other to pay much attention to us.
I think I wasnscrewed form the get go with my childhood and my genetic predisposition to mental illness
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There are so many things linked to childhood trauma that I wouldn’t even know where to begin. The freedom to create a good life for yourself largely belongs to those who were already born into one. But depending on how many protective factors you had growing up (including your genes), it is still possible for most to improve their lives substantially.
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I think my sisters and I did. But we all married men who were raised in very close, supportive and loving families. My brother isn’t really “living to his potential”. I think he is going to end up just like my parents.
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I think this is also because having a sz parent (common with sz) means that also you’ll be more likely to face childhood trauma.
Can there be childhood trauma if you don’t remember it?
My family and doctors said that I had a difficult childhood, that my psychotic mother shouldn’t have be allowed to raise me but I don’t remember anything…
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i dont think my illness entirely hinges on how i was treated growing up but i do think its part of it. i was abused from childhood to my teen years by two family members on a daily basis and it left a big scar on my psyche.
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I’ve had a hard bringing up,and never liked other kids and liked to spend time alone.Most of stress came from bulling in school.I think the fear I collected in school made me lost later in life.
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Suppressed memories affect us so much more than we know.
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I have both the childhood and young adult trauma and the heavy genetics. So, I couldn’t take the poll.
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Genes are important too, yes, but most people with sz don’t have sz parents. But genes are still part of the reason. And yes, you can have childhood trauma and not remember it.
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Looking back, I think I was predisposed by genes, but the childhood probably flipped the switch. Considering I grew up in a very violent household in which we hit to get what we want, my brother and I were in constant competition with each other and tried to kill each other often. My parents were emotionally neglectful, which my therapists think has caused my blunted affect more than SZ or anything. I also had an appendectomy on the border of my appendix bursting and was in the hospital for a week laid up because they put me in an unconditioned room in the middle of the summer in Arkansas. Around then, my personality shifted.
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I scored 3. It seems to be a very much all or nothing thing and does seem to account for the effect of less acute psychologically negative experiences that nonetheless may have an effect. My parents argued a lot and would regularly blame me for their arguments. There wasn’t any physical or sexual abuse towards me , but neither was there much encouragement and support. My mother was an alcoholic/problem drinker. My mother at a fairly young age told me I would never be as good as my father. This being a man she alternated over the years between saying he was a good man and someone who hit her and was rough with her on their wedding night. Over the years she would regularly tell me that I was an awkward baby, toddler,child,teenager etc.
The worst experience though for me was the bullying especially as a teenager by my peers. ACE doesn’t cover that although it can have a profound effect.
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Neither. No genetic influence and no chilhood trauma that I’m aware of
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I scored a 5 on that one based on my memory.
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Aces are wild! 151515151
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My parents sexually abused me by giving me enemas for punishment. I was only 3yo when this began. I recall being given a haircut and acting out. So they overpowered me and…
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They were sadistic; cruel and unusual when I was a toddler. Mom likely had sz, but irresponsibly enough, did nothing about it. Dad was a total loser who happened to be devilishly handsome. Both parents were shallow narcissists. My early childhood sucked. I was given records to listen to while they smoked cigs and watched TV and seemed to regard me as interference. I feared abandonment or being kidnapped up until about age 8, when denial set in. I read omnivorously in grade school and gradually things smoothed over, but all along they drank nightly and got into senseless “arguments” over whether Baja California was part of the United States and other facts they didn’t know because both were morons, essentially. My brother and I get along quite well now, luckily. We can laugh, looking back at what we survived. My sis is still entrenched in family doctrine; thinks it’s okay to be a racist, etc. Typical redneck, of which Oregon has plenty. Therefore, brother and I wrote her off… Otherwise, all is peachy-keen.
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I grew up in county council care on a full care order and pretty much from age 9 was moved around a lot. I think I was abused more in care than with my birth mother. I do know from my early childhood experiences of having to defend for myself and without the love and affection from a mother I’m Dx’ed with Anxious/Ambivalent attachment issues. I find it hard to form relationships thats why I’m still single at 32 and never have or wanted a partner. I’m pretty self sufficient, which has its good aspects but mostly bad because I think I’m going to die alone when I get older.
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