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Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics Growing Up Invisible

Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs

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The Problem of Self Doubt in Childhood

If you are the adult child, you struggle with self doubt. There's this issue with trust that we have and it makes sense because if you as a child did not trust that your parents loved you,. If you didn't know where your meals were going to come from. Were there things happening in the house that mom and dad ignored? Did you go to mom and tell her, hey, something's up with my stepdad and were you called a liar? Or when you said, I don't like that this person is drinking and leaning all over me and embarrassing me and making me feel uncomfortable, were those please or those cries for help ignored?

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