Am I allowed to start being upset and getting help for emotional abuse 3 years after it happened?

You can be upset at any point of abuse - whether it is at the moment it happens or years later. When experiencing abuse, our idea of freedom and self-entitlement becomes distorted. We can be made to feel undeserving of expressing our pain or even be labelled as overdramatic. Remember, we are always entitled to embrace our emotions and expressing our pain. Abuse is complex and the effects of it can stay with the victim years after it has happened. This is linked to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Repressing this and locking it away leaves us with unhealed trauma. It is definitely worth addressing this and getting professional help.

You are entitled to express your emotions over it whenever that happens, and to get support for managing them as well... no deadline for experiencing the effects of emotional abuse... whenevever you feel ready to start dealing with it, is the right time. Trust the process.

You are totally allowed to feel upset about and seek help for an incident that occurred some time ago. For people who go through abuse it is not abnormal for them to be confused or lost with how to feel and respond which means it can take time to re-orientate one's self.

Of course you are allowed to be upset no matter what you do it will still be in your Mind however , if you want to deal with the upset have you tried counselling? They could help with strageties to cope with the situation you are grieving over

yes! emotional abuse can leave a scar on you for a long time. it might shock you at first, but with time it will give you pain. get Help and support! people got to the therapist in times because of something that happened in there childhood.

Yeah, also it's ok to be sad and emotional, what you went through is not easy and horrible, you must have gotten hurt

Yes. There is no time like the present to start healing.

Of course you are allowed... There are people out there who have been abused badly years ago, and have gotten help in their adult years.. Honestly it is better to get help as soon as possible because that hidden anger or sorrow won't go away on it's own and from experience...I've seen abused victims who didn't get help and they carry around such anger with them each day...But each day it just eats at them more and more...Pain doesn't just go away and the best thing you can do for yourself is to get help when you sense there is a problem. Good for you for getting help!

I believe so. We are all individual and therefore heal/grieve at different paces. It would be highly beneficial for you. Well done in taking this step.

An emotional response in any form to any event, whether immediate or delayed, good or bad is completely human. The presence of any pyschosocial and environmental factors and triggers still do not change the first fact.