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Growing Up with Emotional Abuse

Dave Lechnyr, LCSW · Gottman Certified Therapist · Eugene, Oregon

When children’s development of self-esteem, social skills or capacity for intimacy is jeopardized by their parents’ behavior or neglect, they may be the victim of emotional abuse. Whether it is alcohol or other drugs, mental illness, compulsive behavior (eating, working, religion, etc.), or any one of a thousand other things that deplete a family’s emotional life, the results are the same.

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