I will not tolerate your abuse. I will not take your beatings. I will not accept your bullying. I will not listen to your bull.
Being a Mental Health Patient
The nurse said he didn’t need my permission to share confidential information. He used the threat of a section as leverage: an abuse of professional power.
How What We Choose Affects Our Lives
Even when people in our childhoods harmed us, it is how we behave as adults that will make or break our lives. What choices do successful adults make?
The Girl with no Past
I survived years of abuse as a child, and years were wiped from my memory. There’s very little I remember – I’m the girl with no past.
Attachment to the Perpetrator
What makes us attach to people who harm us? Why do we find it almost impossible to leave abusive relationships? How do we change this pattern?
How childhood traumas can cause mental health issues
I was broken as a child, and my mind was scarred. I had lost my siblings, my mother, and my father. I experienced abuse and neglect.
Resilience
Resilience is leaving an abusive home | Resilience is living in 3 homeless shelters | Resilience is what makes me | Stronger than my past experiences
“Normal” is in the Eye of the Beholder
So what if we have strange ways of experiencing the world? We are unique. Not only that, but this difference makes us very important to humanity.
I was raised by a Narcissistic Mother
Abuse, neglect and abandonment are linked to BPD, and I suffered as a child, sadly. I’ve recently learnt that I was raised by a narcissistic mother.
Battling with my own mind – BPD, anxiety and depression
Living with a mental illness, I’m battling with my own mind every single day and giving it everything I have to overcome it and make it to tomorrow.
Stigma, a Mark of Disgrace
Mental health still carries a mark of disgrace. You can’t talk about it without some people judging. It’s time to stop judging and start accepting.
Marriage – The silent treatment
The look, god, the look. What’s for tea? is all he’ll say. You get marks out of ten, and you’re not even on Masterchef! You’re dying, crying inside…