I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.
Pattie MalletteOne day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.
Pattie MalletteI think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.
Pattie MalletteMy dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be protected. I started getting sexually abused from the time I was about five years old to the time I was ten. It really messed with my sense of self worth and my sense of all that was good with the world, almost.
Pattie Mallette