During the past week when a report broke in Rotheram, Yorkshire, Channel 5 showed a 2-part drama regarding child abuse, called Suspects. Since the channel itself made the programme, you can watch it online for a year if you head to their main catchup site using a computer. The front page is here at the following address:
http://www.channel5.com/demand5
and search for “Suspects” without the quotes, the episodes are marked series 2 episodes 3 and 4.
Therapists Spill: How Therapy is Different from Talking to a Friend tags: CA Children Try to Flee from Childhood Sexual Abuse, But Stay for Physical Abuse tags: CA Best of 2013: GoodTherapy.org’s Top 10 Websites for Abuse Survivors tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Margie McKinnon, the founder of Lamplighters, and author of Repair your Life sent me an email today about getting the site added to the resource section of this site. As it turns out, I’m thinking seriously about “retiring” that page, and using this blog as the ultimate resource and recommended reading section instead, so rather…
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Over the years of having this website, I’ve had many people suggest that my abusive childhood made me more compassionate and a kinder human being. Or, maybe it gave me a better sense of humor or made me more spiritual.
Or maybe it didn’t. No version of me wasn’t abused. If there had been a version of me that wasn’t abused, he could be more compassionate. He could be a complete narcissist. He could be funnier or kinder. He could be a selfish ass.
No one knows. That version of me is Schrodinger’s cat. It’s all the possibilities because the box can never be opened to see what’s inside.
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