Years ago I listened to Dr. Murray Banks talk about Mental Hygiene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOl0-qbDSU He shared that mental illness is not heredity. The thing you may get is pretty peculiar parents which can precipitate using insanity as a means of survival. Finally most states recognize that addict parents are a challenge for a child. I am…
In the darkest room a single candle sheds the greatest light. The consequences of sexual abuse darkens a life. Feelings of unworthiness, disgust, self-distrust, sorrow, and so many other negative feelings crowd out light….like a heavy thick smokey fog choking out life. Post is titled inspiration. Darken rooms, darken lives hardly seem inspiring. I didn’t…
A double standard is occurring and no on seems to care. People and press are screaming at the top of their lungs because of a zero tolerance for illegal aliens coming into this country, United States. Because the adults are treated as criminals the children are being taken from the parents. People….this is not new. …
Trauma happens in life. Full stop. But not everyone gets PTSD. Even fewer do what I did which was to create an elaborate survival technique using dissociation to divide up my life in smaller pieces. Life got a lot more confusing when I married and moved away from home, stopped going to school and started…
Warning Warning Tonight’s post is tough. If you are prone to be triggered by discussing Sexual abuse and grooming GO BACK one post and enjoy some process art…..there are no mistakes in art, only new designs. Last post https://ptsd-acceptingcopingthriving.com/2018/06/02/product-vs-process-art/ This is tough for me to write. Recognizing sexual abuse and the process…
I often wondered how I could be neglected when my mother was so controlling. During counseling sessions, I realized that she was only controlling when I was home, the rest of the time she had no idea what I was doing or who I was with. Neglect https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/define.pdf Neglect is frequently defined as the failure…
You are seeing these everywhere because laws were passed in Europe about how private information may be used. Check out my post on my other blog for more information by Google: http://weareone-ruth.blogspot.com/2018/05/no-data-mining-by-me.html You can read my blog without needing to follow or you can post comments anonymously. However, I screen all comments before posting. If…
Sometimes is Physical abuse. Most people think about bruising and broken bones. Easily seen and documented the obvious physical abuse is quickly identified. Physical Abuse Physical abuse is generally defined as “any nonaccidental physical injury to the child” and can include striking, kicking, burning, or biting the child, or any action that results in a…
Sometimes defining what we call abuse is helpful to identify what is what. People do not all respond or define abuse the same way. Sometimes when I read a definition I would feel bewildered because it happened to me all the time and it was just the way I was treated, the behavior was not…
When I hit rock bottom, I decided the only way I had to go was up. So I did. 5 minutes at a time I crept, struggled, fought to get out of the dark hole. Many days I felt like the light at the end of the tunnel was another freight train. Then one day,…
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