“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life This is where I am stuck. I want to tell you all about it, but they’re still alive.
Still here. Still processing. Still kicking ass. More when it comes. Soon, I hope.
This is one of my biggest healing stumbling blocks.
I hear this often from so many survivors of antisocial personality disorder. i think we have all felt this way at some point in our recovery. dont feel like a fool these guys are
( can be a woman too) pathological liars and very believable in the beginning. they get away with it usually by being so charming to everyone around you except who they are close to like their partner. and we dont usually know something is wrong until after the love bombing stops and they start to let their mask slip off. do not feel like a fool , they are the fool.
What is most shocking to me is how people who talk up reams on facebook on behalf of Nirbhaya and scores of other victims of rape and other heinous crimes still regard domestic violence as a softer issue.
Even if the suspect a woman is being abused, they would rather lean back than move forward to help. I guess it is all talk with such people. They would rather do their armchair activism than any real useful activity.
This ad by the salvation army uses the latest “black and blue” phenomenon on the Internet to highlight the issue to domestic violence:
It is an awesome ad. I wish there were more such ads to also highlight the other forms of domestic violence including emotional and sexual abuse. The scars that are not visible on the skin are still there.
The trauma is real. And why is it that you won’t…
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