Child Abuse Survivor Blog

  • This struck me as funny

    Christmas Carols for the Psychiatrically Challenged It made me smile and I’ve always felt that you have to have a sense of humor about anything, especially when it comes to dealing with depression and other things. I’ll be the first one to make fun of my own illness, it helps me deal with it. It…

  • While I’m Away

    I’ll be leaving work early today and hitting the road to visit the in-laws to do our Christmas celebration. I’ll be limited to dialup access all weekend so I don’t expect I’ll be getting much content added around here. I just wanted to take this opportunity to point out that, even when I’m not posting…

  • Reflective Pause

    Yesterday marked an anniversary for me. Nothing big, but it was important to that time of my life. 6 years ago yesterday I started working at my current employer. Starting this job then was a big deal, not because of the job necessarily but because it marked the final corner turn in my recovery. After…

  • New blog

    Found a new link to a fellow survivor of child abuse and have added her to the blogroll over there under that category. It seems that the blog was just started this month, but the frank, honest nature of the writing has made an immediate impact on me. I expect I’ll be back many times….

  • Excellent Article

    I was looking around this morning and stumbled upon this article written by a young women suffering from, trying to overcome, and learning everything she can about depression. I thought it was a pretty good look inside the mind of someone who suffers from depression. I especially idenitifed with this quote: “Diabetes is manageable, you…

  • Overcoming Fears

    Both of these articles that I found over at the Occupational Adventure Blog revolve around overcoming your fears in career pursuits, but I think some of these same ideas apply to overcoming fears in every area of our lives: How Overcoming your Fear can Boost your Career Fear Factor It’s important, I think, to recognize…