Is Neglect Abuse?

2024-11-30

Psychodynamically speaking, neglect causes you to miss those milestones, and because of that the safety required to build your sense of a true Self is absent. You are never what you are supposed to be. Who you authentically are. Because that requires safety and healthy mirroring of authenticity from your caregivers. Instead, You are a walking collection of defence mechanisms, but with no soul so to speak. This is the source of all neurosis, and even psychosis.