#abuse

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas about the world around them: 'No one will believe me. Telling the truth results in bad consequences. People can't be trusted.' It doesn't take long for children to being to act in accordance with these belief systems. For girls who have experienced incest, sexual abuse, or rape, the boundaries between love, sex, and pain become blurred. Secrets are normal, and shame is a constant. ↗

— Rachel Lloyd

#children #incest #love #pain #rape

A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#narcissism #r-alan-woods #sociopaths #victims-of-narcissists #abuse

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun. You know there's an alternative to the way you're living and that you're going against something you've been given for free by the universe, this key to the kingdom. Drug addiction is a progressive disease, so every time you go out, it gets a little uglier than it was before; it's not like you go back to the early days of using, when there was less of a price to pay. It isn't fun anymore, but it's still desperately exciting. Once you put that first drug or drink in your body, you don't have to worry about the girlfriend or the career or the family or the bills. All those mundane aspects of life disappear. Now you have one job, and that's to keep chucking the coal in the engine, because you don't want this train to stop. If it stops, then you're going to have to feel all that other shit. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#family

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#advanced #constitution #decent #i #quite

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#friends #him #make #man #unjustly

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#abuse #democracy #statistics

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. ↗

— Jo Brand

#also #audience #could #felt #had

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#calculated #higher #order #preserve #risks

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied. ↗

— George Catlin

#am #applied #believe #general #general sense

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#abuse #also #although #because #committed