Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.
David Foster WallaceTag: prostitution addiction librarians recovery prostitutes sex-work
Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.
David Foster WallaceTag: addiction drugs alcoholics-anonymous sobriety recovery bikers
Only love can neutralize shame.
Omar ManejwalaTag: inspirational love shame self-help recovery
Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.
Tag: sobriety recovery sober-living taking-control
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
R. Scott BakkerTag: suffering responsibility recovery blame anguish
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 HoughTag: healing recovery mental-health child-abuse trauma sexual-abuse abuse child-sexual-abuse devastation
Although healing brings a better life, it also threatens to permanently alter life as you’ve known it. Your relationships, your position in the world, even your sense of identity may change. Coping patterns that have served you for a lifetime will be called into question. When you make the commitment to heal, you risk losing much of what is familiar. As a result one part of you may want to heal while another resists change.
Laura DavisTag: identity change relationships healing recovery mental-health commitment copy 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 SchreiberTag: amnesia healing psychiatry recovery psychotherapy mental-health dissociation multiple-personalities sexual-abuse abuse multiplicity dissociative-identity-disorder mpd dissociative-amnesia fugue
It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely
Flora Rheta SchreiberTag: lost panic amnesia psychiatry recovery mental-health dissociation multiple-personalities dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder mpd dissociative-amnesia dissociative fugue multiplicty pscyhotherapy
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 EngelTag: innocence pain emotions memory rape healing recovery mental-health mental-illness sexual-abuse abuse sexual-assault flashback
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