Wow Lavash that is f'd up!
I'd say another thing that really changed my life was going through putting a man in prison for molesting me. I was 16 going through all of this and I kept a postive outlook on things. Here has always been my slogan "everything happens for a reason, you live and you learn and you teach others with what you have lived". I was taught this at a young age "I can do and be whatever I want to be if I put my mind to it" and I know we have always heard this but when I went after something it was 110 percent or nothing at all. I usually always acheived!
But going through the molestation and the courts I knew that one day I would help someone else. I was coming out of this a stronger person and I wasn't going to let that man get me down. Profound moment in my life.