This saying. "depression is anger turned inward". I got that from a journal prompt list for anxiety and depression.
I wonder if it's possible that I ever had any Trauma due to selective mutism which also turned into depression which that turned into anger in adulthood? I would have to say yes because. But then again I was only a three year old kid and didn't know better or didn't know what depression and anxiety was back in the late 70's around 1976. My feelings didn't even matter as I was three years old back in 1976. When I was three years old, my parents had to feel my feelings for me because I didn't know what it was back then. I still don't know. They have tried to teach me but I failed to listen. Does anyone think that if Trauma present, does anger outbursts occur later in life in adulthood? I don't think that I had any anger when I was 1, 2, or 3. It had to have started when I was 4 and after I got diagnosed with selective mutism. Now that made me so angry! I wanted to beat someone up but deep down inside I kept hurting myself. I do have to say that I had depression right after I had been diagnosed with selective mutism.
I'm writing more as I remember.
