How do you confront a parents who has emotionally abused you?

Well first of all no family member has the right to ever abuse physically or emotionlly their child, ever! I would, and have written a letter. In person, the parent can walk away or argue their point back to you when all that you want to do is express what they did and how it made you feel. If you call them on the phone, they could hang up on you, therefore never hearing what you had to say at all. This is most likely to happen when they beleve that they don't have a problem and are not ready to come to terms with their behavior and treatment of you. Some people believe that there was never a problem, or try to justify the reason you were treated this way. I recommend a letter and send it to them, because once you start reading something, it is usually hard for a person to put it down because curiosity takes over and they usually finish reading it. You will be allowed to finish your thoughts and not be interrupted. Do this so you can heal from the pain, and not to expect a response at all. Chances are they are not at a point they can or will say sorry, sometimes they believe that they had done nothing wrong so they will never appologize to you.

I think that it might help if you had a mediator in a situation such as this. This is a person who is completely impartial to the situation, but would help for you to be able to have meaningful conversation with your parents and try to work out a way forward in the situation. It is important to find out why your parents behaved in the way that they did, and it is also important that you tell them how they made you feel, as they might not have realised that at the time that it was happening. Things like this can take time, though, so you should try to be patient.