Again, this hit home for me as I go through some major changes of my own, but I know that change is something that many survivors struggle with. Change is going to happen, no matter how hard we fight it, but we can learn to cope with it. “It is never easy to go through…
Unfortunately, many survivors do not get the result they were hoping for when they disclose their abuse to their closest friends and family, because the person on the other end of the conversation simply doesn’t know how to react. Here’s a few clues that might help you the next time: When a survivor opens up…
I would say the same thing about mental health, and child abuse survivors. It may not be easy to talk about, but until it is normal to do so, there will always be stigma around it. We talked and talked. Part of me silently whined and resented the conversation but a much bigger part of…
I’d agree with this article. I’ve known a few people who’ve had addiction issues over the years, and I don’t know anyone who was perfectly emotionally healthy and then just started using and became addicted. That’s not the path of addiction. That describes quite a few people who maybe experimented during their college years and…
I completely agree with what Amy has to say in this article. In fact I would say the same thing to child abuse survivors who are viewed as being “weak”. You’ve survived something that many people couldn’t survive. How does that make you anything but strong? “There’s a pervasive belief that mental illness stems from…
The numbers are staggering. “Official figures indicate that between a fifth and a third of all cases of child sexual abuse in the UK involve “perpertrators” under the age of 18 – but the figures could in fact be much higher. In a random UK general population survey of more than 6,000 people, a staggering…
