Child Abuse Survivor Blog

  • More messing around

    OK, so I changed my mind on the comments. Mostly, spammers changed my mind for me. Making the comments on all entries over 30 days old moderated kept the junk from hitting the live site, which I’m happy about, and it seemed like a good idea at the time. But 350 moderated comments later, I’m…

  • Sickness and depression

    I’ve been sick the last couple of weeks. Nothing major, just one of those stubborn head colds that seems to stay with you forever! It’s getting better slowly, I even managed to make it to work every day this week after taking two days off last week. The thing I most hate about it, is…

  • Witch hunts

    On Halloween night, naturally, we were watching a documentary about the Salem witch trials. It was very interesting, and as part of the show, they did interviews with some historians and had them discuss some of the background around why there was so much anger towards certain people and what role that played in them…

  • Special occasions

    Curt Rosengren posted today about making everyday a special occasion. He offered up this story by Ann Wells of the LA Times. It’s an attitude that, as hard as it is some days, is important to live by. None of us know how long we will be here, or how long our loved ones will…

  • Bright light treatment

    Thanks to a link from Doug Klippert, I found this article about something called “Bright Light Therapy” which can be used to effectively change the timing of the body clock. “Probably the greatest use of bright light therapy is for the treatment of winter depression, especially in very northern countries which have little sunlight in…

  • Focus on happiness

    Someone left a comment the other day in which they talked about anger, and the struggle to live with the anger over what had happened to them. My response was something along the lines that, for me, the anger will never completely go away, but it gets replaced. As I learn to live my own…