"The bottom line here is very simple," Dr. Robin says. "You must go and get help. … It's deep because the wounds started very early on. For you to give yourself a chance and your child, to break the cycle of abuse, … you've got to get some professional help. Use that energy that you've been using trying to hold your world together with Billy to begin to build a real life for you and your child."

"If you break up with him," Oprah warns Mindy, "this will come back to you wearing a different pair of pants—unless you fix you."

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