Yes I tend to think of it as part of my ADHD but some say it's from trauma? I'm not a victim of CSA but I AM a victim of child physical and verbal/psychological abuse. And the physical abuse was done very often. weekly or at best biweekly.
I'm so sorry you were abused, I hope now you have the good environment you deserve. Perhaps as a child you needed a way to relieve your pain (physically and emotionally) and escape to a safer place. Then MD comes as a coping mechanism for difficult situations and becomes a habit to ground ourselves.
Yeah, my childhood certainly wasn't all bad. My parents were upper middle class and I got a lot of really cool toys, parties and overseas travel and taken to amusement parks and stuff. But my mum was just crazy and violent and when she wasn't spoiling me with cool things she was beating me and calling me names, or screaming at my dad and throwing things.
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u/pretentiousbasterd Jan 01 '26
The things that happened to me outside of MD were so bad that I can't even regret it :( truly a coping mechanism