It Hurts to Have Had a Bad Childhood

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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It Hurts to Have Had a Bad Childhood - Amanda's parents both suffered from mental illness and she's sad about her lost childhood, which was spent raising herself and taking care of her siblings. - Dr. Laura: "Look at yourself as a success story." - Would you say you had a good or bad childhood? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:52.9	Amanda, welcome to the program. Hi Dr. Laura. I'm a volunteer book but I've my first time calling.
1:03.2	Welcome. What can I do for you? I'm actually calling because I am currently in therapy
1:11.8	after a very difficult COVID year with my bio family, which is my mom, my dad, who are still
1:19.7	married and my two sister's younger sisters. I realized a lot of things that they don't really
1:28.5	know me as a person and we don't really have much of a positive relationship. Just backstory on
1:38.1	not a little bit is my mom's bipolar. So there's a long history with that. My dad's an enabler
1:44.0	and my sisters and I have always been. What is an enabler of somebody who has a psychosis?
1:49.8	Just some of her behaviors towards manipulative behaviors and a little bit of the
1:58.8	she's mentally ill. She's meant if she is bipolar she's mentally ill.
2:04.8	Yeah. And part of that. Okay. Can you slow down? I need to know that you're actually absorbing
2:09.9	what I'm saying. So I don't have to keep repeating it. You talked about your dad being an enabler.
2:15.6	First of all, I never heard that used when you're the spouse of somebody with a severe,
2:22.3	serious mental illness. Well, I guess it goes in what I'm trying to say I guess is maybe it's not
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