#abuse

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you. ↗

— Rebecca O'Donnell

#hope #incest #insecurity #memoir #love

Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal ↗

— V. Pain

#healing #hear-me-roar #inspiration #strength #vpain

To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpertrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest. ↗

— Flora Jessop

#inspirational #inspirational

Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma. ↗

— Judith Lewis Herman

#childhood-suffering #childhood-trauma #freedom

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#citizens #confidence #enforcement #erode #good

I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it. ↗

— Pete Coors

#abuse #alcohol #been #big #company

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families. ↗

— David Elkind

#commitment #families #frequent #love #may

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature…” p52 ↗

— Cheryl Hersha

#childhood-abuse #childhood-trauma #dissociation #government-corruption #government-cover-ups