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What You Experienced Has a Name
What you experienced was abuse. And it wasn't your fault.
Your answers point to a pattern of systematic harm — whether emotional, psychological, coercive, or physical. You have been carrying this, often alone, often in silence. The first act of healing is the decision to stop protecting the people who harmed you at the cost of protecting yourself.
What this means
Abuse rarely ends cleanly. Its effects live in the nervous system, in the way you relate to others, and in how you see yourself.
Naming it does not mean you have to take any particular action. It means you are no longer willing to call it something else.
The body has been keeping score. The work ahead is learning to feel safe in it again.
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