I have a few friends that I talk to about it. It helps sometimes.
Whenever I'm criticized by my parents now I noticed I have a tendency to go ballistic. In addition to the things I wrote about above, they were hypercritical about everything I did for most of my life. They always seemed to dwell on my mistakes and throw them in my face. If I got a good grade, they congratulated me for a day. If I got a bad grade, I heard about it for years. I think its funny that they think they have the right to talk to me about guilt tripping.
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