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Basically I lived with her most of my life, then when I was 16 I moved in with my dad and she now lives across the country with her husband. We have had a bit of a rocky relationship lately because she doesn't feel she is able to help me with my mental health issues or my school problems from so far away, but we haven't argued in a long time.

The issue is from around the time I was aged 8-13, I was constantly afraid of her. I won't get into too much detail but she was emotionally abusive, belittling me, cursing at me, ignoring me. Eventually I would apologize, when I'd done nothing wrong, and she'd "forgive me" and things would be good for another half day or so. Your pretty basic abuse cycle, apparently. This shit gave me a few issues, but I've mostly worked through them. Lately, though, I have been feeling sick every day from anxiety and am more depressed than normal. When I'm feeling anxious, sometimes thoughts come up about how she treated me during that time of my life.

I know she was very stressed and not in a good place when she did these things to me, and she pays my rent now. She does so much for me now so I don't feel like I have a right to bring it up, or that there is a point. I would probably just make her feel guilty for something that happened a long time ago. I'm not sure what to do, because part of me feels I want to talk about it.
<bot>: my mom used to be emotionally abusive towards me, never acknowledged it and I'm struggling on whether to bring it up now, 5 years later