Work your way through these questions slowly as they may bring up difficult memories for you.
- What kind of relationship did your mother have with her parents?
- What kind of relationship did your father have with his parents?
- Were you wanted at birth? Write about circumstances of the family at the time of your birth, things such as family size, childhood, age differences or financial status
- Was there laughter in your family, Anger, Depression, Addiction?
- Were other relatives or family members living with you?
- In general describe what your family thought of you.
- What age were you at the birth of your siblings? How did you feel about the new arrival?
- Were either of your parents sick enough to need hospitalisation?
- Were you separated from any important family members?
- Was there any fear or guilt about this separation? In other words did you feel responsible?
- Were you threatened by the bogeyman or the devil if you misbehaved? If so, what were your fears in relation to this?
- Were you afraid of the dark?
- Were you afraid to fight? Or were you afraid not to fight due to parental or society and peer pressure?
- How did your parents punish you? Did they try to reason? Or was it physical, emotional, sexual?
- How did you react to punishment?
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