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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi
This is going to be a super unpopular opinion, but when your life is just kind of derp--like you experience lightweight problems--you're more likely to get depressed, because meh. The good is meh, and the bad is meh. So it sucks. But when you've been through some serious shit, especially as a child, and survive, you get perspective on how good things actually are when they're good. Depressed people need something actually really bad to happen to them so they can get some perspective and stop being depressed.
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When you’re abused as a child your brain develops incorrectly and it’s a lifelong affliction that makes you more prone to mental illnesses like PTSD, anxiety, depression and also malignant narcissism, sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies and all that. Almost every serial killer story starts with an insane childhood. Neglected children have smaller cerebral cortexes especially in the prefrontal region. It’s really hard to put a positive spin on child abuse.
If you are a child abuse survivor though it is your right to express the opinion that you’re glad you were abused because it made you who you are and you love who you are and wouldn’t have it any other way. People want to disallow that because they think that means you’re saying child abuse is helpful. But other people don’t get to add unsavory addendums to what the survivor is saying. I was abused. Those experiences are mine. I can frame it anyway I want. If the words don’t add up to fit a certain agenda too ****ing bad.