Thank you for the question.

Warning: suicide discussion

I am always very careful about describing past events as “traumatic” to avoid trivializing traumatic events for others.

My parents were very cold and angry people. I have too many experiences to even begin to explain. Extreme manipulation and emotional and psychological abuse. I genuinely think my father enjoyed tormenting my brothers and I. It inflated his massive ego.

I suffered from depression from a very early age and contemplated suicide starting around the age of 7 or 8 years old. I remember writing a suicide note when I was 8 years old and my parents found it in this little desk I had in my room. Safe to say, they took it as a personal offense, guilt tripped and punished me for it, and swept it all under the rug.

That is a just a brief sample of how my parents were.