T Trauma

"I internalized that if I'm ever sad or angry, whatever I show, whatever emotion, or have my own wants, that's a big one. Like if my wants are not what dad wants, then I won't be loved," he says. "Then at 19 fast forward, all of this stuff got any better." He had spent the last three years obsessively working out to get as buff as possible and was very naturally skinny. But his mother didn't treat him well when she expressed herself in an emotional way. His father shunned any like any expression of emotion which made it even more difficult.

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