Following revelations of child sex abuse in Rotherham, actor and director Samantha Morton felt the need to go public about her own shocking experience growing up in care homes in Nottingham. Here she talks for the first time about being sexually abused by residential care workers, and what happened when she went to the police about it
ake describes the risk of these kids growing up to be people pleasers. I’d go one further. Not only did I grow up as a people pleaser, but I also had zero sense of self. Without someone to react to and to become the person they wanted me to be, I was no one. I tell people this often but I spent more time in therapy figuring out who I am than I spent trying to process childhood trauma and that was a direct result of growing up as this chameleon kid. My entire personality was based on fitting what was needed by other people, starting with my alcoholic father and the person who sexually abused me, right through to friends and my first wife. I was what I thought they wanted me to be. When my therapist started asking about what I wanted to be, I was blank. There was nothing there.
Apparently, it is newsworthy, but while the headline of this article may seem shocking, anyone paying attention to child abuse statistics already knows this is common. Child predators arrested by FBI were people parents trusted. Maybe some day the media will figure out that whole grooming thing and stop overstating the risk of strangers and…
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I would say the same thing about healing from abuse. It often leaves us as adults with many, many fears. Break tasks down into small parts. Only tackle small fears one at a time. If the task is too big, it may be too daunting to tackle. Your confidence will grow stronger achieving some success…
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RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
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RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
@SurvivorNetwork So eloquent. It shouldn’t take an actor to be heard – but may be why her comment re #InstitutionalPrejudice is so powerful.
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: If you missed it – Actor Samantha Morton Discloses Her Own History of Being Abused in Care Homes http://t.co/RoXDXv…