Abandonment with no explanation~CEN

Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN)
Childhood emotional neglect is a failure of parents or caregivers to respond to a child’s emotional needs. This type of neglect can have long-term consequences, as well as short-term, almost immediate ones.

People who are emotionally neglected as children grow up to be adults who must deal with the consequences. Because their emotional needs weren’t validated as children, they may not know how to deal with their emotions when they occur.
The most common effects of childhood neglect in adulthood include:

• post-traumatic stress disorder
• depression
• emotional unavailability
• increasing likelihood for an eating disorder
• shunning intimacy
• feeling deeply, personally flawed
• feeling empty
• poor self-discipline
• guilt and shame
• anger and aggressive behaviors
• difficulty trusting others or relying upon anyone else

Adults who experienced childhood emotional neglect may also become parents who neglect their children emotionally. Never having learned the importance of their own emotions, they may not know how to nurture emotions in their children.
Effective treatment and understanding their own experiences of neglect can help people of all ages overcome the effects of emotional neglect in the short-term and prevent future complications as well.

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ACTION STEP: Stop the cycle. Get help. Pray. Ask a trusted friend or counselor for help. Call you pastor. Your feelings are important, but so are the feelings of others. Just because you toughed it out does not mean you are okay or that others can be expected to tough it out too.Childhood emotional neglect can damage a child’s self-esteem and emotional health. It teaches them their feelings are not important. The consequences of this neglect can be deep and last a lifetime.
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Treatment for childhood emotional neglect can help children who were neglected overcome the feelings of emptiness and inability to handle their emotions. Likewise, parents can learn to better relate to their children and prevent the cycle from happening again.

I believe in you, and you need to believe in you too. There is hope!