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TL;DR: I was verbally and emotionally abused by my dad two years ago. He hit my brother today and me two weeks ago, plus we’ve been walking on eggshells around him. Is this abuse all over again?
Context: after my parents divorced, sometime late 4th grade (though I can’t remember specifically when), my dad started abusing me and my brother—particularly me. It was all verbal and emotional. His expectations were too high, and it was his way of the highway. Rarely did he hit us. We were forced to write increasingly long essays whenever we did something wrong, which once was simply my brother fibbing about washing his hands. I would tell my mom about it and she tried to help, but I was too scared to tell the court therapists anything, and it took until the end of the summer before 8th grade for anything to happen. That summer is been with my mom only after refusing to go back to my dads after a scare phone conversation that left me afraid. When I was forced to go back, things got better. Things were okay.
A few months into 8th grade and I snapped mentally; I was extremely ||suicidal|| for a week, this starting my mental health journey. (I won’t go into detail because it isn’t relevant). At this point, I have a therapist, but I haven’t seen them in a while.
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