As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.
I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
I was an abused kid.
I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.