When you’ve experienced these more chronic, harmful family dynamics, you may also find yourself questioning yourself a lot. This questioning isn’t tied to any specific event but rather, to your whole sense of self and trust in what you experienced as real.

This is because one of the ways that might have helped you to survive chronic harmful family dynamics/experiences of abuse, was to downplay or otherwise, repress what was happening to you. *If you could convince yourself it was not as “bad,” you could feel less angry, sad, remorse, confusion, etc.