“I am at all times scared that individuals are simply gonna depart me for no cause,” Leah mentioned, detailing her abandonment points — earlier than additionally admitting why it is “painful” for her to see previous clips of Teen Mother.
Amber Portwood’s daughter, Leah Shirley, is starting her journey to heal from the previous trauma she’s skilled in her relationship along with her mom.
Throughout Thursday’s new episode of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, the 16-year-old actuality star made the choice to begin remedy to handle how her difficult relationship along with her mom has affected her psychological well being through the years, with Leah revealing that she suffers from “abandonment points.”
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After Catelynn Lowell’s husband, Tyler, referred to as Leah’s dad, Gary Shirley, and revealed how remedy helped him cope with his previous struggles along with his relationship along with his father, Gary sat down with Leah to debate the potential for her speaking to a psychological well being skilled as effectively.
Leah shared how considered one of her buddies in school requested her if she was on a TV present, including that the classmate instructed her she had an previous Teen Mother clip pop up on her TikTok, to which Gary then requested Leah if she feels “strain” in school from being on tv.
“It is simply bizarre. I have been seeing a number of TikTok movies with, like, previous clips and stuff,” she instructed her dad, who requested if she watches clips which are “painful to observe.”
Leah mentioned she typically sees previous Teen Mother footage from when she was a toddler. “It is simply bizarre to observe,” she defined. “It is at all times Amber screaming at you, and you then depart.”
“After which there’s one clip the place she’s yelling, like, ‘Why is Leah crying?'” she continued. “When she’s in a exact opposite room, simply leaving me. And it is simply bizarre. I believe these are simply painful to observe ‘trigger it is little me.”
The present then minimize to the clip Leah was referring to, with Amber yelling at Gary from one other room as child Leah cried, earlier than exhibiting different related, tough-to-watch moments.
“I simply assume I’ve a number of points due to Amber, and the experiences that I’ve had,” she admitted, to which Gary mentioned he needs he might have performed “extra” for his daughter, including that it have to be tough for Leah to observe that previous footage.
Gary then advised remedy, and Leah agreed, noting that she needs to have the ability to “overcome” her trauma, “forgive” Amber, and “transfer on.”
“I believe it will assist to have somebody to information me on the right way to forgive somebody as a result of it is exhausting for me to do this,” Leah added, earlier than she opened up about her difficult feelings about her mom in a confessional.
“I am not likely certain once I realized when she wasn’t there, however I do know I do have abandonment points from her not being round,” she shared. “However I do know that there is a lot happening that makes it tough for her to have the ability to be there for me.”
“I really feel prefer it does have an effect on me daily as a result of I am at all times scared that Kristina’s gonna depart me,” she continued, referring to Gary’s spouse, and her stepmom. “I am at all times scared that individuals are simply gonna depart me for no cause.”
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Later within the episode, Gary defined to Kristina that he had made a remedy appointment for Leah, with Kristina noting how lengthy it has been since Leah has seen Amber.
“We’re at 4 months once more with no contact,” Kristina mentioned. “I imply, that simply performs along with her feelings. I believe transferring ahead … you and I simply must go along with what Leah needs.”
Gary agreed, including, “Leah is about to be 16, and she will go to her therapist, and say no matter she needs. So, if she does not need her mother to know, that is last.”
Gary drove Leah to her first remedy appointment, along with his daughter saying that she was feeling “good” about having the ability to get “to speak to any individual.”
Cameras did not observe Leah into her appointment, and after, Gary instructed Kristina that Leah “did not actually discuss a lot” to him about it after both, including that he did not “wish to pry.”
Kristina shared that she spoke to Leah and warranted her that she’s there to help her.
“I do know they talked slightly about her mother, I believe,” Gary revealed, to which Kristina requested if he believed Leah probably attending remedy with Amber “would ever be useful.”
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“No,” Gary instantly replied. “Now, it is to a degree the place you are giving up on any individual [who’s] given up on you. There is a distinction there.”
He added that Leah has “constructed a boundary” to guard herself from “getting damage.”
“Good luck to Amber if she ever needed to go to court docket, ‘I can not see my daughter,'” Gary mentioned. “I might be like, good luck! Gonna worsen for you the second you do this as a result of it’s going to 100% change, every part will change.”
“Leah mentioned if she was ever pressured to go there, she would run away,” Kristina instructed Gary, who laughed, earlier than including, “She would run away, however she would inform the decide what she needed, and it would be performed.”
In a confessional, Gary — who has had full custody of Leah since 2011 — burdened that his precedence is his daughter, and placing her “first.”
“Every time coping with Leah, I need it to be her ideas, her emotions, I believe that makes it, it form of places a number of these exhausting questions out of my fingers and into another person’s fingers [who’s] an expert,” he shared. “It is solely Leah [who] issues.”
New episodes of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter air Thursdays on MTV.
