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  • 20 - The child grown up: ‘on being and becoming mindless’: a personal account

  • from Part V - Child-sensitive therapeutic interventions
  • Edited by Michael Göpfert, Webb House Democratic Therapeutic Community, Crewe, Jeni Webster, 5 Boroughs Partnership, Warrington, Mary V. Seeman, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Parental Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    09 August 2009
    Print publication:
    13 May 2004, pp 287-291

  • Summary

    In this chapter, the author shares her experience of growing up within a disturbed family. She felt trapped and overwhelmed by the emotional weight of her parents clinging to her, too physically close. Her answer to all of this, as a teenager, was to overdose. The two overdoses that she took were serious, and as she looks at it now, she feels that she was lucky to survive. With the help of long-term psychotherapy she was beginning to find herself and to feel for herself. Being denied the necessary adult attention left her with the feeling that she did not deserve it, as if she had no right to ask to be cared for. She now works with disturbed children and their families, where they still meet children who have been struggling unnoticed with one or both parents suffering from a mental illness.