43/M My mother used to beat me and she proceeded to lock me in a basement bedroom when she didn’t want to deal with me. Throughout my teen years I was beaten; which caused me to lash out and generally be a dick. I never thought I’d escape her grasp.

And then she moved out of state to be with the woman she was cheating on her then wife with. I moved in with my dad and continued life. Eventually, I got my life going (woman, home, career) and then I started to suffer from what I called “seizures”. (They ended up later being diagnosed as PTSD related stress blackouts, but I didn’t know that then)

Then she wanted to renter my life. Wanted me to move in with her and her now wife, control my finances, and my then GF’s as well. Luckily, my GF said no and I chose her over my mom.

I started therapy after my “seizures” became too debilitating for my work and I was diagnosed with PTSD and depression. I tried to explain to my mom what the cause was but she didn’t care. So I stopped talking to her