Jason in all honesty these guys have good advice but please go to therapy.

They are the experts in helping people with troubled pasts and issues.

well here is what i did...i decided my past was part of me, I accepted that growing up in a poor school where kids got beat up was a difficult struggle for me, and decided I am now a bigger man than the rest of those rich kids who I deal with now for surviving through that and rising above it. Other people pick up on it, and they admire you. And go ahead and talk about your childhood when ur building value or whatever the acronym is, because bad experiences are in a way valuable, even if they have made you weaker, especially in the eyes of people who havent had them.