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What is your worst childhood memory?

Reading a story today triggered this post, I haven't yet decided on wether or not to share mine, or on how. But if you want to tell yours, here's an opportunity.

My Father forced me to eat herring-salad. even if he saw my lips were burst and bleeding, because of the cold weather...It was very salty and it hurts and i have to vomit...
The second worst thing happend as my granny dies...i was 7 or 8 years old. And I was on birthday of a friend as another came and told me my grandma is dead...I say ok ..i will go to my parents to be with them....these fucking "friend" said to me :" oh you don´t cry???"....
at this moment i have tto cry like an old woman....it was terrible

I won't relate the worst ones, but one of my mom's friends was babysitting me and we went for a drive. We were on a windy mountain road and he pulled over so I could get some fresh air. As I was standing by the ledge of deep ravine, he lifted me up so that when I looked down I couldn't see the ground underneath my feet. I've been scared of heights ever since.

Well... thinking back I get the impression that my childhood was a string of bad memories, really. My father hitting me when I was small, later, when I started going to school he took care not to hit me any more as that might leave marks and he turned to other means of punishment.
My father insulting me and embarassing me in front of others, friends and family
My father touching me in places he shouldn't have

And my mother crying, trying so hard to keep up the semblance of a family for the outside world....

Tonsilitis was kinda bad.. ear infections..

You all make my childhood feel so sheltered.

I don't really have any bad childhood memories, apart from the usual getting lost and embaressing myself, but that's all part of growing up!

So there's noting really.

What is your worst childhood memory?

Reading a story today triggered this post, I haven't yet decided on wether or not to share mine, or on how. But if you want to tell yours, here's an opportunity.
Probably at Fantasyland where there was a wooden 'thing' that one would walk across it consisted of a number of wooden beams and was about 4 foot off the ground and one would walk along this beam to get to the other end.

I did it once and my Folks were ever so proud of me that they wanted me to do it again.

Which i attempted to do except i kept falling off but still they wanted me to succeed again and again i was to try again, then i got hurt and was crying but still they wanted me to do it and eventually i did.

I walked across a beam thing.

I also had a Dream this morning where people i knew kept picking my pockets and givingh my wallet back only to take it again and again.
Those Bastards.:(

no specific "event", just the constant (and sometimes violent) arguing and stress of my parents as they tried to keep their heads above water in the '92 recession, and for years after. i was an insensitive little fuck and i really didn't help (something i'm not too proud of) and i've been scared of their break up ever since, like, badly.

mostly its a string of memories of things i did and that i hate myself for, not somebody else.

How strange. My dad's watching video tapes taken when I was 5.

Worst memory? None of my bad childhood memories compare to the bad memories I've had as a teenager. I was, however, extremely bored for a relatively brief period in 1993.

How strange. My dad's watching video tapes taken when I was 5.

Worst memory? None of my bad childhood memories compare to the bad memories I've had as a teenager. I was, however, extremely bored for a relatively brief period in 1993.

I recall "The Great Yawn of '93" - many people did not survive it.

The Boson and i being caught up on the mizzen mast when a terrible gale was ablast off the coast of San Juan.

The Boson and i being caught up on the mizzen mast when a terrible gale was ablast off the coast of San Juan.

Cor blimey!

Cor blimey!
Yarrgh we were seperated from the rest of the fleet for two days and were set apon by a Squadron of the Royal Navy Yarrgh.

Only the Quick witted nation of Good Ol' Captain Le'Quosent saved us from the gallows Yarrgh!

Yarrgh we were seperated from the rest of the fleet for two days and were set apon by a Squadron of the Royal Navy Yarrgh.

Only the Quick witted nation of Good Ol' Captain Le'Quosent saved us from the gallows Yarrgh!

Sounds like a hell of a childhood...

My oldest childhood memory is thus:

I was two and a half, watching some of my friends' elder brothers run down some stairs. I thought: "I'll try that!" and gave it a go. I fell, cracking my left femur all the way through. I spent 8 weeks in a body cast and had to learn to walk again.

Meh...it all pales in comparison to what's been happening to my family and my life the past two or so years...

By the way, how do you know when you suffer from depression?

By the way, how do you know when you suffer from depression?
2 weeks of depressed feelings is the clinical definition, but minor depression can be diagnosed with less extreme feelings but lasting longer.

you can never really know for sure i suppose, but if life looses its meaning for you, thats a pretty good indicator as far as i'm concerned.

here's a good website about it with personal experience on behalf of the (delectable) author http://www.freewebs.com/understandingdepression/

i can TG you my msn addy if you want to talk about stuff at all :-)
'cept i have to go to work now, but the offer still stands for later lol

2 weeks of depressed feelings is the clinical definition, but minor depression can be diagnosed with less extreme feelings but lasting longer.
Mmmh, well, it doesn't seem to be clinical. I guess one just feels down sometimes. I trust it'll be over tomorrow.

Mmmh, well, it doesn't seem to be clinical. I guess one just feels down sometimes. I trust it'll be over tomorrow.
If it keeps coming back, even if it doesn't stay for two weeks, it could still be depression.

The deciding factor is: how much does "feeling down" affect your life? If it's a problem, you should do something about it. Checking it out can't hurt.