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Child Abuse and Mental Health Survivors Information - Issue #78

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Child Abuse Survivor
Mar 3, 2023
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PTSD is exhausting. So is anxiety, depression, and every other thing that we carry through life in a society that wasn’t built for it. The weird thing is, if we added up all the people who’ve ever dealt with grief, trauma, or some sort of mental health issue in their lifetime, we’d realize that we are the majority.

Yet we still didn’t build a society that allowed for us to carry all of that around, because we have all been indoctrinated to believing these are things we just don’t talk about.

That realization makes me so sad, and fighting it can make me so tired, but fight it I must. We all must, for all of those who are still afraid to talk.

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Underscoring the Fact That The Abuser is Normally Someone Already Known to Kids

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Get used to checking in with yourself emotionally. Yes, it’s a hassle. Yes often times the result of a self-check in will be, “all systems normal.” Do it anyway. Get in the habit.
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Who Defines You?

Like the non-conformist, I had no base. I was designing my whole life around responding to my abuse. My identity wasn’t something I was an active participant in developing, I was simply reacting instead.

Until next week friends, take care of yourselves.

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