I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again.
Cassandra GiovanniTags: love romance bullying abuse abusive-relationships star-crossed-lovers
Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scandalized because they now feel they have so little to offer. Some girls do drugs or drink to excess in an attempt to blot away their stigma. Others become depressed and anorexic. And others think so little of themselves that they date boys who insult or beat them.
Leora TanenbaumTags: sexuality reputation bullying abuse self-destruction stigma slut-shaming
SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATION
The patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive and inescapable traumas in order to survive that which could easily lead to suicide or psychosis, and in order to eke some growth in what is an unsafe, frequently contradictory and emotionally barren environment.
For a child dependent on a caregiver who also abuses her, the only way to maintain the attachment is to block information about the abuse from the mental mechanisms that control attachment and attachment behaviour.10 Thus, childhood abuse is more likely to be forgotten or otherwise made inaccessible if the abuse is perpetuated by a parent or other trusted caregiver.
In the dissociative individual, ‘there is no uniting self which can remember to forget’. Rather than use repression to avoid traumatizing memories, he/she resorts to alterations in the self ‘as a central and coherent organization of experience. . . DID involves not just an alteration in content but, crucially, a change in the very structure of consciousness and the self’ (p. 187).29 There may be multiple representations of the self and of others.
Middleton, Warwick. "Owning the past, claiming the present: perspectives on the treatment of dissociative patients." Australasian Psychiatry 13.1 (2005): 40-49.
Tags: identity psychology suicide control personality attachment psychiatry dissociation psychological child-abuse abuse dissociative-identity-disorder mpd ddnos traumas
The most important thing in defining child sexual abuse is the experience of the child. It takes very little for a child’s world to be devastated. A single experience can have a profound impact on a child’s life. A man sticks his hand in his daughter’s underpants, or strokes his son’s penis once, and for that child, the world is never the same again.
Laura HoughTags: healing recovery mental-health child-abuse trauma sexual-abuse abuse child-sexual-abuse devastation
Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
Laura DavisTags: fear courage healing survivors mental-health trauma abuse child-sexual-abuse
Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up
Flora Rheta SchreiberTags: amnesia healing psychiatry recovery psychotherapy mental-health dissociation multiple-personalities sexual-abuse abuse multiplicity dissociative-identity-disorder mpd dissociative-amnesia fugue
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Criss JamiTags: freedom silence speech warning dictatorship freedom-of-speech force rights pressure abuse miranda-rights miranda-warning
You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can then express your pent-up feelings about the memory and continue on your path to recovery. Think of the flashback as a clue to the next piece of work. No matter how painful, try to view it as a positive indication that you are now ready and willing to remember.
Beverly EngelTags: innocence pain emotions memory rape healing recovery mental-health mental-illness sexual-abuse abuse sexual-assault flashback
Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at understanding the dynamic of why the messenger is always shot and broadcast the Bionic insight of why the visionary is not bearable to the group.
However, when it comes to military mind control, abuse within religious belief groups or cults, and deliberately created dissociative identity disorder, we enter the least resourced field of all.
Tags: psychology military therapy dissociation psychotherapist trauma ritual-abuse abuse multiplicity mind-control cults dissociative-identity-disorder messenger satanic-ritual-abuse psychological-abuse mkultra muliple-personality-disorder religious-abuse social-worker
How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life?
We might, as a society, slowly find it possible to accept that one in four citizens are likely to have experience some form of emotional, psychical, sexual or spiritual abuse (McQueen, Itzin, Kennedy, Sinason,
Tags: mind psychology child rape torture betrayal therapy dissociation psychotherapist child-abuse trauma ritual-abuse sexual-abuse abuse multiplicity mind-control cults dissociative-identity-disorder unimaginable traumatic emotional-abuse splinter physical-abuse psychological-abuse spiritual-abuse muliple-personality-disorder child-abusers fragment
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