What was your most traumatic experience, and how did you cope with or recover from it?

i still haven't recovered from it. and persistent emotional/psychological abuse.

I 'came out', for want of a better term, in the last year at school and, mostly, people were supportive - or, better..didn't care either way - but I had one instance when I decided to be kinda cool, and get dressed....

Went out, just around shops I seem to remember, and obviously didn't 'pass' as well as I thought I would.

I got a lot of sneering voices from boys a bit older than me, ridiculing me...berating me; all verbal taunts.

I was highly anxious and close to tears....ran home....upstairs...crying my eyes out and nearly vomiting..shaking like a leaf.

Composed myself....watched a lot of the youtube vids on makeup and stuff, and...voila! Here I am today, able to talk about it.

The one that affected me the most is when a social worker was taking me to what i guess was my first foster home .She told me i was going to be with my family. Maybe she said new family but all i heard was my family. I was so excited ,when we got there they opened the door and it was 2 people I'd never seen before. I looked at the social worker and said no this isn't my parents!! I started back to the car but she brought me back .She was leaving i panicked, wait it's a mistake!! The new man looked at me said we're sorry your parents died but you're staying here now. I still wake up in that doorway in my dreams.

My divorce. Wasn't my idea, but damn, after a while I was determined to excise her from my life.

I did, and I am typing this from the house we used to share. Boom!

I’ve had a few and sometimes I don’t know how but I like to think I’m stronger from going through them.

I can’t say. It’s too traumatic

My younger sis had something happen many yrs ago. I didn't find out till last yr. was very upset with my Dad & Mom and myself one of us should have been watching her. I still fill the light in me has dimmed a bit. Slowly in my heart I know she is strong it gives me solace.

Thank you for suggesting I share what I'm comfortable sharing.

It's parental stuff. My life is still greatly affected by it. Probably best talked about in PM.

Idk. My uncle killing himself wasn't much fun, nor was drug addiction any of the times I went through it. It's hard to pick one thing.

In fact, I could probably write several books on unpleasant experiences.

I've gotten through it as I always have: with determination to see life through to the end and the ability to laugh even when everything is going to hell around me 😂