So let’s say you are six years old and you’ve seen abuse around your family,not physical but emotional abuse. You come home everyday to see your father frustrated and mother crying but you have to remain strong for the whole family.Now fast foward 7 yrs and you are now 13 yrs, your parents aren’t legally seperated but they live in different states, your mother always complains about who should be taking care of the bills and who should be the man of the house even though she saying the man she’s married to isn’t her husband anymore, you try and give her advice to be strong and see therapy but she tells you you don’t understand. Your father trues to be a better man and husband but your mother won’t let go of the past, throughout your whole life you haven’t shown any emotions that indicates you are feeling hurt or need help because you’ve tried to stay strong so your family leaves you alone even though you are more damaged than they are, you have no one to talk to and you have to keep the face you’ve curved on to yourself until you are out of the house you labeled as a “hellhole”. Than one day your mother invites a guy over who seems nice your brother shows your father through the phone what’s going on your father flip out and thinks he’s being replaced so he threatens to do something bad, so your mother later that night calls the police and you are curious to know what happens so you hide and evesdrop on her, she tells them false lies of what happened and you want to step out and prove her wrong but you also want to listen some more, after the cops go you get out of your hiding place your mother tries to comfort you even though you don’t feel any emotions at this point, you try and contain yourself from slapping her and running away. The next day your father sends you a video of him breaking apart you offer him advise and comfort him. You break as well but you don’t let him see. At this point I’m lost and I don’t know what to do, grownups don’t take me seriously even though it seems I’m more mature than they are, they tell me I don’t know what’s going on but I’ve been exposed to multiple things and they don’t know. Throughout my whole life I’ve played the innocent card and acted as if I didn’t know what’s going on but I knew more than I should. What do you do when you are finally broken.

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