I am the scapegoat of the family

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If you're easily impressed I suggest not reading the foward text. This text is about my life, it's not a story, it's true.

Well, since I was a little child my parents were unfair with me and my younger brothers, they would treat myself differently. My parents were always very demanding and everything I did was never enough for them, they would also be demanding with my younger brothers but, they wouldn't appreciate all the things I did in the house. Like clean the house, tide some rooms, I used to do birthday cards for my relatives and stuff. I used to be really caring with my family. I really wanted my family to be happier. Cause my mother suffered from depression and she still is and she never hugged me or said "I love you" to me. But I used to want that from her. I remember crying in front of her and she was indiferent, cold and asking to me what happened to me and she didn't know it was her fault. My father also was a bit unloving. He never hugged me.
When I was a teenager my mother started cursing me for no reason. She just simply got mad and said "You're worth a ....." and stuff like that, I was like :O I can't believe my mother said that to me. Why is she so upset with me? Why does she hate me so much? Then sometimes she said you're s..t, worth for nothing, you don't do anything in this house. And I said, yes I study I help in the house. And she said well that's all. Then she humiliated me infront of my friend, she yelled at me and cursed me when I was with my friend for no reason, I was like what?? She also used to slapped me and pull my hair. I tried to get out but my father had to push her away from me. My father also slapped me and pounched me really hard.
Those things made me grow with trust issues and hate in my heart towards my family. I would go to the youth group and always pray for my family. I yearned for respect and I knew I couldn't find it in my house. I also knew I had to obey my parents no matter what. But It was hard and we argued once my mother left me out on the road outside the car walking she said "Now you go walking to the house". Then my hate grew bigger and bigger and I decided to pack my clothes and my savings and leave the house when I was 19. Then my parents found me. I did it many times though. I wanted to find a place where someone would take care for me and appreciate me at least once in my life.
When I was working at the pharmacy I did a mistake now I don't remember, but my parents got really mad at me and they started arguing with me, and then it got worse and my father started cursing really bad at me while pounching on my back and my arms. Obviously the door of the office was closed but the employees could hear everything that he did.
My father also started cursing at me when he got mad when I was late studying with my classmates.
Then at 21 I started to have a passion for missions and I was afraid to tell my parents cause I knew the wouldn't be supportive and finally I told them that I wanted to go on a mission trip and that I've been praying. They said it was "ok" and I was already really excited cause I knew I was going to go. And I sent some e-mails and then met some missionaries here at my city and I loved it. Then when I was packing to go, it was getting late, so my father is relly histerical and nervous like my mother, and started to freak out, and said, HURRY UP ! HURRY UP! and I was packing as fast as I could and then he said COME HERE! and then he started lecturing me and then he said YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING IN OUR HOUSE! and I said, yes I study. And he said THATS ALL YOU DO, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU FINISH? BE A PROSTITUTE?
And I was in shock, that felt like he stabbed me into my heart with those words.
Then I said "No, why are you saying those things to me?" and he started pounching me hard, I covered my self but he pounched me on my back and arms and head. I cryed for him to stop but he kept for 5 minutes.

Then he said, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BRING PHOTOS OF OUR FAMILY TO THE TRIP, cause the mission trip asked me to bring some.

Then my mother didn't go to the airport to say goodbye and when I came back she didn't came to receive me either.

My grandmother was the only person who could understand me, I told her what my parents did to me and she was really sad about the whole situation, we used to do the devotional together. (She passed away in Feb, 2009.)

Then on 2010 I had bought a book for myself to read and she took it whiout telling me and she entered into my bedroom without asking (my room is the only private place I have). And then I asked her nicely to give me the book back cause I haven't read it. And she said -NO! , IM NOT GIVING YOU BACK THE BOOK! (shouting) She's nuts (by the way), and I tried to ask her again until, I was tired because she was treating me so bad, that I told her -If you don't give me MY book Im going to take it to my room. I said. And then she said shouting -WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO TAKE THE BOOK? And I said -I bought the book, it's mine. So it took the book to my room, and she followed me running upstairs. And she said-GIVE ME THE BOOK!!! (shouting) And the started throwing some books at me. -GIVE ME THE BOOK!!! (She said while she started scratching my face) Then she grabbed me and pulled my hair and then I tried to get out, but then she grabbed my arm and BITED it for 5 min!!!!! It hurted a lot. And then my brothers came to my room and they didn't hep me, they said "mom stop!" and a minute later she stopped. My brohters could have taken her out of me, but they didn't. And they didnt take me to a hospital cause they knew my mother would be in trouble with the police and she could go in jail cause I was bleeding. I had my arm swollen for a month.

At that point I was really scared of my parents, I couldn't trust my family no more. When I came back from vacation I sent an e-mail to my mother's friends telling them the kind of person my mother really is and I also told some relatives. I said to my mother I was going to live on my own in an appartment cause waerlier we went to a therapist and I told him my parents were aggresive and he said all the members of the family wouldn't hurt anyone anymore, at least physically. And my mother broke that promise, she's crazy and I needed to go away from that place so I started living on my own. Then my parents did something horrible to me, the most horrible thing a parent can do to their child, besides raping them. My parents went to a psychiatrist and told him lies about me, that I was aggressive (?) and I the truth is I was ok in that appartment, well at least better than now with my parents, it's a living hell in my house. Then the psychiatrist made a conclusion about me without knowing me but guided with my parents lies (of course they didnt tell him my mother bited me, slapped me, pulled my hair, scratched my face and insulted me and my father punched me, slapped me and insulted me). So they decided to go to my appartment and lie to me saying that they knew how to heal me from my insuline resistence (cause two months earlier I was diagnosed with that and that got me depressed), and that they would take me to a hospital to find out for a cure. And I knew it sounded strange but I thought "No, my parents can´t do anything wrong to me now." And then I was happy in the car singing untill the car stopped and we got to a strange place where there was a policeman. I thought "Well, this is strange, how can there be a policeman in a hospital?, Also It doesn't look like a hospital, it looks more like a big house or something." And then I had a bad and horrible feeling that something really bad was going to happen to me, and I didn't know if I should run away but I knew that at that point, my parents had me there, so I had nowhere to scape. So, I got into the place and there was a woman who made me sign a paper, and stupid me! I didn't read the paper I just signed it! The woman was a bit shaking and looking at me with horror as if she was scared of what would happen to me, I could almost could hear "Don't do it" several times. I ignored the voice and signed the paper. That was the worst thing I could have done! My mother went to a room to talk with a psychiatrist telling her lies about me, that I was aggresive, and I don't know what else. Then I saw my father's face and he ignored me he looked angry (?) and I didn't know why? as like I did something wrong. Then I saw a lot of sad and poor people there, then I was like this is NOT a hospital, WHAT is this? I want to get OUT NOW! But I knew at that point my parents had set my up. Then when I entered to the psychiatrist's room she started accusing me as like I did something to my mother ??? And I immediatly said that my mother verbally and physically abused me over the years also my father. And she did nothing. My mother lied and said I scrached her arm. Then they said they would take care of me and stuff they say to the people who are mentally ill. And I was in totally shock and really angry at my parents for the set up: I couldn't believe my parents had set me up to take me into a mental hospital. It was too much to take at that point. And I said: "You have to believe me, please, my mother bited me this summer, I also took a picture of my arm bleeding but she erased it. Please my mother is not ok, my father is not ok too, he is supporting her and he is also an aggressive person." They didn't say anything. And I said "I need to go now" and the moment I tried to move away, some men grabbed me strongly and pulled me up like I was an inmate or something and very violenty they took me to a small room with no windows and then I also saw old women too, like mad nurses. I said "Please, why am I here? Please don't hurt me, I won't do anything to you. Please don't hurt me. It's ok." And one men took my pants off and then they stucked a syringe in my but really hard and it hurted. There was an old matress in the small room so I stood in the floor still. They put me some medicine to drug me so I couldn't scape. Then they left me there for 36hrs.
So it's by the grace of God that I didn't kill my parents, cause I thought of doing that many times for revenge. But I will let God judge them. If they don't want to realize what they have done to me, they will infront of God.
 
After that the psychiatrist came to me and said it was a mistake and I shouldn't have been taken to that place, and I said "I know". And now I struggle with anger and hate in my heart towards my family and I know it will take years to forgive them for what they did. They already said "Sorry" to me for what they did. But that doesn't change things. They keep saying "Sorry" but everyday I live with verbal abuse. Even though my parents are going to theraphy and I tell the therapist and she told them to quit saying those things to me cause they're not true and they're making me feel more depressed, they keep doing them.
 
Hello Eri, I've been reading with attention your whole story and I wanted to tell you that I'm so sad for what you've been through. In a way I lived a similar situation in my childhood for this reason I have much empathy with you for this situation..

I can imagine all the suffering and pain you lived and carried inside for what happened in your life...
I believe that the violence of reject, the violence of not being loved and appreciated, of having a refusal of a hug and of some affection, can be really one of the most painful things... These kind of experiences of life usually leave a big sign inside of us, a feeling of suffering... And they can lead us to a lie that we are not desired or wanted from others or in the most bad case, that we should not be in this world at all at the end... That's the voice of rejection.... But what I want to tell you is that these are just lies fruit of wrong situations and people. Because even if I know you since really few time I got that you were special. You are a gift of God, much beloved by Him and He will surely lead you through better lands. He will surely let you see new wonders and taste the freshness and joy. Just, be strong in Him, hope and believe and do not stop where you are right now with your actual situation or past. God has something new for you. Trust Him, because He's able to turn your troubled past into a blessing for others. Healing sometimes can be a slow process, but He's the one who can give you a warm hug where your parents were not able to give, and in Him you will find the protection and love you need.

A big hug also from me: Remember in God you have another family that is from all the world who wants to take care of you and share with you not only the joys but also the suffering that sometimes this life puts in our walk ! And personally i really want to encourage you and support you as I can, really please count on me whenever you'll desire. Thank's for having opened your self with us! I will pray for you.

Many blessings and love from Italy,
Donato
 
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Thanks, at least someone here understands all my suffering and pain and has a heart to reply to my thread.
Hugs back, I won't give up
I know that these situations made me a stronger person and I know I'm so worth it, so I don't give a crap what my sick family says. I went through scapegoats sites and they say don't listen to the family cause they're sick, and I've heard a lot of scapegoats stories and they're all the same: it stars with a sick mother, spread it to the father, then to siblings and to the other relatives.
 
Thanks, at least someone here understands all my suffering and pain and has a heart to reply to my thread.
Hugs back, I won't give up
I know that these situations made me a stronger person and I know I'm so worth it, so I don't give a crap what my sick family says. I went through scapegoats sites and they say don't listen to the family cause they're sick, and I've heard a lot of scapegoats stories and they're all the same: it stars with a sick mother, spread it to the father, then to siblings and to the other relatives.

That's the minimium I could do as a brother in Christ.
I know forgiving is not easy because you still feel hurt by this situation, but try to not reserve anger againist them, as you said God will be your justice. I don't know if your mum passed the same from her family or is just sick, but in any case she's surely victim of a evil influence. Thank God you are departing from this mentality and you will not let this evilness continue at least in your future family one day. From you a new beginning will take life because you know God, so resist. I don't know how is the situation right now, but I hope you can get out of there as soon as possible.. I can imagine This situation is not easy to be carried on and you deserve some rest and peace and a new life.
 
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My mother was a rebelius kid but she didn't suffered as much as I did. She was never set up by her own parents and sent to a mental hospital, that's the sickest thing a parent can do. I know my mother is sick and by what I read in some websites there is an evil presence and no doubt a demon probably in each of my family members, I had a dream when I was eight, only one of my friends knows this dream. That I was in my bed and suddenly I saw my mother but it wasn't my mother it was an evil presece that had taken control of her and inside of her I could see my real mother terrorized trying to run away, scape from this evil being that is controling her. Then I saw my father, but it wasn't my father, it was a demon possesing him, like my mother, I could also see him inside this demon trying to run away but couldn't. Then I saw my two brothers that they just had been taken but another two young demons, and I was so scared, cause I was afraid another demon would come to take me away. And then I saw her, it was the evil "ButterflyPrincess"(I will keep my name private), not me, this demon was eager and hungry to devour me, and I just ran away and then the nightmare ended. I know now this is not just a nightmare I had when I was 8, I'm now sure my parents and brothers are possesed by demons.
 
And every time I think about Jesus, yes, he was the ultimate scapegoat but at least he wasn't SET UP BY HIS OWN FAMILY... I wish I was set up only by my friends and my family had supported me.. I wish...
 
ButterflyPrincess, that was an unbelievable story. One thing that you said stands out to me, that you know you have to obey your parents no matter what. You don't have to obey them if they tell you to do anything un-biblical. I hope you are doing better now, are you living by yourself at this point still? I will pray for you. Remember, you are God's princess. In Christ, -JIM
 
My mother was a rebelius kid but she didn't suffered as much as I did. She was never set up by her own parents and sent to a mental hospital, that's the sickest thing a parent can do. I know my mother is sick and by what I read in some websites there is an evil presence and no doubt a demon probably in each of my family members, I had a dream when I was eight, only one of my friends knows this dream. That I was in my bed and suddenly I saw my mother but it wasn't my mother it was an evil presece that had taken control of her and inside of her I could see my real mother terrorized trying to run away, scape from this evil being that is controling her. Then I saw my father, but it wasn't my father, it was a demon possesing him, like my mother, I could also see him inside this demon trying to run away but couldn't. Then I saw my two brothers that they just had been taken but another two young demons, and I was so scared, cause I was afraid another demon would come to take me away. And then I saw her, it was the evil "ButterflyPrincess"(I will keep my name private), not me, this demon was eager and hungry to devour me, and I just ran away and then the nightmare ended. I know now this is not just a nightmare I had when I was 8, I'm now sure my parents and brothers are possesed by demons.

ow this dream was very bad and the meaning of it it's quite clear.. I agree with Jim in a way, I think as fast as you can you should find another place to stay and maybe even a new placement... With God this is possible.. How is exactly the relationship with your parents and family in this moment?
 
ButterflyPrincess: I was (and still am) in a similar situation to yours. I have been treated badly by my mother, her uncle and, in the past, his brother. My biological father is out of the picture and someone my mother was going to marry is now deceased.

I have been verbally and physically abused by the three. My mother's uncle's brother beat me with a belt when I was very young. My mother has slapped me and the incidents with her uncle have been worse.
I have been punched, scratched, he threw a chair at me while I was asleep and it landed right in front of my face, he once threw me onto the floor and put all his weight onto my neck (he grabbed me from behind, so I couldn't do anything about it) and I'm sure he attempted to strangle me on one occasion.

The time he scratched me was the last time he attempted to attack me like that (and the prior incidents). He grabbed me and scratched me from my shoulder down to above (or slightly below the top of) my left pectoral. He then started trying to drag me around the room. I went with the flow, but I then forced him against the wall and I punched him on his left cheekbone (I'm right handed). My brother, his friend and my friend rushed upstairs when they heard the connection between my fist and his cheekbone and then me verbally abusing him. He still had hold of me, while my friend was telling him to let go. My friend didn't want to get physically involved (me and my mother's uncle were big (as in fat big), so I'm not surprised (I'm thinner now than I was then). I had a cigarette to calm me down, because they are one of the only things that work (I'm not a regular smoker, I never did smoke seriously anyway. Only used them to calm me down).

He punched me a few minutes before he threw me to the floor. He punched me in my stomach. I was soon arguing with my mother (I can't remember what it was about. It might of been about him hitting me). He came behind me, grabbed me and threw me onto the floor. I couldn't get up because he was on top of me. Then he put his arm on my neck and pushed down heavily. I was saying; "What the f**k are you doing this for? (I was not a Christian at this point.) I went to school after that. I sat down and just lost it. I threw the table in front of me. A teacher brought me out and we went into her office. I told her what had happened that morning. She checked it out (rang home etc) and left me in her office. She comes back about 5-10 minutes later and says; "Tom, why did you lie to me?" I think I nearly lost it again when I heard that. I told her I wasn't lying. I wasn't. My mother and her uncle claimed that it was a restraint to stop me from physically abusing my mother and my younger sister. I made no attempt to harm them. I was about to go to school.

My mother tried to have the police arrest me for domestic violence last September. She had taken two things of mine while I was asleep (my phone and my PS3 headset). I tried to get them back. I made no attempt to harm her.

All of this, including the bullying at school, drove me to a suicidal point. I told the school. I was sent to a councillor. My mother went along, but only to try to make lies about me. I started walking to school, despite the councillor's pleas for me to stay. I left the building, walked down the road, but then turned around and started walking back. Only to tell the councillor to have 1-to-1 sessions with me. They agreed. I don't think my mother did. But the sessions were for me, not for her.

Parents can be trouble. They are never trouble-free. But the best thing you can do is stay strong. No matter what happens. Trust that the Lord will help you. Pray that He helps you. Pray that He protects you.

God Bless.
 
Dear Tom,
I'm so sorry to read about this and thank you for sharing it with me. Thanks for your support and know I can be a support for you as well. I know what to do as my family concerns, I won't stay in this country for long cause I don't want to suffer any more from my family, I'm saving money to leave my country. I will pray for you. I really feel sad reading this, family can be such a bad influence for us and toxic environment. In this cases my personal advice is to leave them behind and start fresh again =).
 
:) I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. JESUS KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. HE SAID, HE'S NOT A HIGH PRIEST THAT ISN'T TOUCHED BY OUR INFIRMITIES. WONDER WHY GOD GAVE HIM. THIS IS WHY. JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD. HE KNOWS ABOUT THE FALL OF MANKIND, AND IT'S ILLS. SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE, HAS A STORY TO TELL. NOW THAT YOUR A PART OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE FATHER'S KINGDOM, YOU CAN LOOK AT YOURSELF THROUGH HIS EYES. I CAN SEE YOUR IDENTITY WITH GOD, YOU ARE COURAGOUS AND BOLD.