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Academia is full of broken people. This is no different than any other segment of society. We’re all trying to compensate for some thing that happened to us  in the past.
I understand that you cannot fix those broken people. But you could be more cautious in the future, and set up stability in your life such that those broken people don’t overtake who you are.