A close friend asked the other day how I think my trauma has contributed to the variety of mental illnesses I live with. It got me thinking that not only did trauma contribute to my mental health issues, but because it started so young, it, in fact, changed my entire childhood development and personality.
I never had a chance to develop properly, because, for me, there simply was never a time I wasn’t traumatized. My birth mother was a cigarette smoking, drug-addicted alcoholic who gave birth to me, a drug-addicted, drunken baby, at the young age of 18.
I was removed from her custody and after a lengthy hospital stay, was placed in Crown Wardship, or the custody of the province of Ontario.
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