Link – Helplines for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape and sexual violence
With all the attention on sexual abuse in the UK lately, this resource from iTV might be a good things to share with all of our readers in the UK.
With all the attention on sexual abuse in the UK lately, this resource from iTV might be a good things to share with all of our readers in the UK.
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.
This, we know. Many survivors have experienced it first-hand. “Believing that the world is ultimately a fair and just place can result in individual and social complacency due to the idea that justice happens on its own, fueled by an actively engaged, ‘fair’ universal force. The belief in a just world can also result in…
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What a loaded question, and one that is so hard to answer. “How can I explain to my family and friends what I’m going through? They just don’t understand, and I’m struggling to explain what I’m experiencing.” The rest is a pretty lengthy read, and it should be. There’s a lot to consider around that…
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