Probably emotional neglect or the lack of adequately nurturing is the least recognized and validated for of developmental or marital abuse. Looking at attachment style can often help you to understand how this neglect occurred and what you need to heal. Maybe negative thoughts intrude on your thought process. There are many approaches that work for this, depending upon your needs.
Counselor/Therapist, Board-Certified Life Care Planner
This component will assist in reducing trauma and stress-related complications as a result of the past or current emotional abuse. It will also help improve emotional and physical safeguards to avoid or confront emotional abuse, which should increase emotional intelligence, conscious of self and surrounding, and how to anticipate and confront different problems.
Many of the trauma-survivors I work with tell me that the most damaging aspect of their traumas were the many negative messages that they received about themselves from abusers. Emotional abuse often leaves deeply rooted self-doubt and self-loathing in its wake. I use some of the best evidence-based trauma practices available to help survivors of emotional abuse identify and challenge these negative messages, in turn increasing self-confidence and optimism.