Peter had a rough childhood, dealing with an aggressive father and a submissive victimized mother. He internalized the father’s aggressive ways and mother’s low self-value; he performed to the best of his abilities the role of the mother’s protector, the father’s controller, and the responsible only child.
Those circumstances dysregulated his nervous system in an unceasing way, a characteristic that led him to develop complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).
As an adult, he became an aggressive man with low self-esteem, who had no idea how to control his emotions, which shifted from anger to desolation, from despising to neediness, from strong ambition to complete defeat.
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