Posts Tagged “abuse”

Unstable over at This is Uncensored Territory Baby keeps coming up with posts on therapeutic exercises that are so spot on.  This exercise is no different. A Declaration of Permission. Apparently it’s not secret now that I find these therapeutic, although I’m still chickening out on the letter to my m other one. LOL First bits [...]

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Somewhere a few posts back I had a revelation about myself and why I blog under a nom de plume. I’d thought it had to do with being bipolar and some of the whacky stuff that brings into my life. I didn’t realize the glaring fact that in my real life virtually everyone knows I’m [...]

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I’ve been thinking about forgiveness on and off for the last few months.  It’s a theme that crops up regularly in my life because of the sexual, emotional, and physical abuse in my childhood. It’s something I’ve talked with my therapist about.  I get tangled up in it because I often think of forgiveness as [...]

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I’ve always had a hell of a time with that.  Secrecy is what kept me abused for so long when I was a tot. Privacy had no meaning, really. My bedroom as a kid was private, except that my father ambled in to abuse me whenever he took the mind, and my mother ambled in [...]

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Another TRIGGER WARNING. If you’re feeling fragile this may not be the blog post to read. Take care of you, eh?   Imagination I always had.  Normal games, normal play, not so much. Read the rest of this entry »

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.. that I was not like the others?  Birth?  Well, perhaps not that early. But my life was never like the others, and it didn’t take long for me to realize I was not like the others. TRIGGER AREA AHEAD  Abuse. Craziness. The beginning of the bipolar roller coaster. The root of C-PTSD. Yuk. Head off elsewhere [...]

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…that I’m much more comfortable “talking” on my blog about bipolar stuff than the rest. The rest mostly being the various abuses I survived. Or the addictions I survived. Or the rape. Or the mugging at gunpoint.  Or. Or. Or.  Yes, the bipolar disorder is a total pain in the ass.  It’s hard to live [...]

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“We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.” ~~Max Walker