Abusive parents worst actions toward you?

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What is the worst thing your parents or parental figures have done to you I.E. most damaging physically or emotionally?

For me it was getting beat on the head many times. One time in which I was beaten it knocked me out & I was so fearfully that even unconscious I got up & ran away. It seemed like it was the fastest I ever ran. I came to half way across the field running as fast as possible. I didn't even know I was running for half the distance across the field.

My counselor told me my brain went into protection mode where the mid brain took over & got me out of danger without me knowing consciously what was going on. It is these types of things why I have PTSD. These type of incidents burn this into the lowest levels of memory. The type memory that exist in the mid brain that animals such as reptiles use to survive.

These types of incidents can permanently damaging emotionally & to a degree physically to the brain.

I'm sorry to hear that happened to you, geranium; that's very serious. I'm glad your counselor is working through that with you.

Mine isn't as bad as that; my mother used to get so angry with me when I was a small child, that she used to hold a pillow over my face in a threat to smother me; this happened enough times for me to always remember it.

She also used to lock me in the cupboard under the stairs, which had no handle from the inside. And nope it wasn't even like Harry Potter's cupboard; it was dark, smelled musty and was filled with junk with only standing space right behind the door. There was a light switch but I was too small to reach it. I remember this happening regularly too. I remember crying hysterically with fear.

I was also, just the one time, dragged like a sack down the back garden's concrete pathway for half its length, crying and screaming and getting scraped legs.

Not a parent but it was a nanny. She thought it was a good idea to put me in the bathroom as a time out and lock me in there, she would hold the door closed. Also she would slap me around. I was afraid of her so school was heaven and then I would come home and stay hidden out of her sight so I wouldn't make her mad and get in trouble. Her thinking it was okay to dangle me in front of my mother where my feet were barely touching the floor and yelling in my face and telling me I am a bad girl made my mother decide to terminate her employment.

I am surprised this didn't even traumatize me except I would lock my brother in the bathroom for a while with the light off and it took me a while to quit that.