abuse

for the entirety of our family lives since my father married my mom all that time ago, our family has continuously been locked into an endless cycle of mental and physical abuse in almost all of its forms. Mental illness causes people to put up walls around every aspect of their lives because the best way to heal from mental illness is to push everyone away until you come to realize happiness doesn't come from anyone or anything else. It comes from the natural intelligence of the entire universe we were blessed with.