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Today, for the second time in this series, I have my partner answering the questions, and we’ve gone a little deeper today.

I just want to thank my partner to for being so open with her answers.

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Question 1.

Like a lot of people, unfortunately, your upbringing wasn’t the best. You lived with abusive, bullying parents, how does this affect your mental health?

Well, living in that environment, you think it’s normal, you think all parents do what yours did. As you get older, you realise, it was definitely not normal. I’m nearly sixty now, and my mental health is still suffering from the neglect an abuse I lived with as a child. You are hyper vigilant, all the time, you live with depression, anxiety and self loathing. I would say it has a huge effect on your mental health. As you get older, you come to terms with things, understand to a point, but with me, I doubt it will ever leave.

Question 2.

What would you say, if anything, have you learned from your experiences?

The first thing that comes to mind is, adults aren’t always right. Kids are brought up and told, adults are right because they know better. No they don’t. I’ve learned that kids make more sense. If you listen to a child, I mean actually listen without bias, they see things so simply. Being an adult, in this society, we’ve learned to lie, and act how we have been taught to act. Children have no concept of society’s rules, so tell it like it is, simply and honestly, and nine times out of ten, are completely right on what they observe and say.

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Question 3.

You’ve been in a dark place in your life, a few times. How do you come out the other side?

That’s a hard question to answer. My darkness has taken me to the edge a lot of times, I wonder myself how I see things differently now. I think my beliefs helped me hugely, and the love I have for my children and grandchildren.
The darkness makes you compassionate for others, you understand where they are coming from. Ideally, yes, I’d love to not know those dark places in my mind, but I believe everything we go through is a lesson we need to learn. How we choose to deal with that lesson is also another lesson. Some people will be compassionate and caring to others, but some will be bitter and angry. I choose compassion, I think we all need compassion in our lives, especially in this day and age.

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Thank you all for support.