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Thanks for the welcome y'all!

Sooo hi! I'm not very good at introducing myself and I'm super nervous around new groups but here I am! I'm a survivor, I guess, of emotional and spiritual abuse. I only really put the pieces together just under a year ago after talking with my siblings and I've spent the time since then slowly realizing more and more just how messed up my childhood was. My parents are loving but overprotective and controlling and their involvement with a fundamentalist Christian cult through about half of my childhood only made things worse.

Thankfully I'm moving out of their house to live with my oldest sister very very soon but I'm afraid getting to a safe place will just bring even more trauma crawling out of the woodwork. I'm not sure if I have CPTSD or not but...it seems highly likely. My older brother who went through the same wringer of abuse I did has CPTSD and I've been dealing with a ton of anxiety and panic attacks in the past several months.  I've been researching trauma and such more recently, stumbled across this forum, and just thought I'd reach out. Never hurts to have more community after all :>