Aug 4, 2023
Not many people talk about how deep emotional neglect hurts you.
Iām afraid to want things. Iām afraid to ask for help. Iām afraid to tell someone something if they seem in a bad mood. I canāt process when someone is nice to me. I canāt handle rejection, but my brain literally short circuits if someone gives me a compliment to the point where sometimes the rejection is better.
There are lots of overlap with emotional abuse, but emotional neglect hurts just as much. And itās even worse that it usually goes undetected, so a lot of people canāt tell theyāre being neglected until itās too late.
