When I was in therapy, I remember asking my therapist if perhaps maybe I was just too sensitive (as I was often told by my parents) or weak? She stated that it is the strongest people who admit that they have problems and try to work on them. She also said that if I am sensitive, that is okay, that I just how I react to the world. Perhaps my family situation would have been easier on me had I been less sensitive, but that in no way excused the abuses I was subjected to as a dependent child.