One of the biggest "robberies" of abuse, in my experience, has been of self-esteem/worth/etc. As I review some of the coping mechanisms that I have used in my life, I find most of them were born out of a need to protect the "self" in one way or another. My age at the the initiation of the abuse (12) was certainly prime for the mangling of self. That age is one of searching, attempting to discover, etc, and when abuse hit the mix I'm sure it was easy to scramble. As I work through my healing, the recurring theme is that I have to believe in me, first and foremost.
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