I Am a Child Abuse Survivor

After a man molested me it's just been hard for me to think of guys as physically attractive (girls are pretty though). But I think I've made a breakthrough. There is this guy and we like each other. The only thing is I think I am sort...

It's something I have always put away
something that I have tried to forget
something I don't normally talk about.
But lately I'm thinking a lot
I think about a lot of things...
I'm thinking about the new direction I want to take in...

before i let anyone in on my abuse story, i just want to say how grateful we should all be that we even RECOGNIZE that we were abused. there are many people who take tons of therapy to learn these things about their lives. i had to...

I have never received a hug or kiss from my parents. If I have I don't remember it. I've never gotten a birthday present or blown out candles. I didn't know kids got all this until I made real friends in 5th grade. I didn't understand...

It was in May.. Still too cold for the public swimming pool to be opened..We lived in Vernayaz, a very small village, close to a town called Martigny, where the public pool was...
I was with my friend Sandra who was 7 or 8 like me. It...

I haven't really talked a whole lot about my past here, but recently, I think I have felt inspired to do so because of the strength of other friends in my circle who have talked about their experience. I think it's important to share...

Everytime I sleep I have these flashbacks of my childhood.
The pain and suffering, everything I went through.
Its been so long but I suffered just to get to the decent life I live now.
And I cant forget it, It haunts me all the time...

On Martin Luther King it happen 1999 i was rape i could remember it like it was yesterday no ever talk about rape before it happen to me i still remember the first it happen i still remember what the room look like what was cartoon to...

I like keeping certain things in order. My room, desk, and papers may look like a complete mess to an untrained eye, but my thoughts and memories are always preserved with a flawless method because since I cannot forget, keeping all the...

Many nights of "Here we go again".
Will it ever end?
Probably not. I just live with it.

Getting old. Still haunts me.

Bummer

Im pretty new to this sharing thing so if you could be patient with me...

In 15 years i was abused mentally, sexually and emotionally by 6 different men. All of whom are family.

Some days i think that it was just a bad dream, that...

When your in it you do what you have to, to survive. You tell yourself that one day everything is going to be alright and this is just going to be a bad memory. And then when your an adult you realize things aren't alright. Those...

My father, who is the main abuser, had Mild to Moderate Borderline Personality Disorder. Having a disorder is probably not fun, but there's a point when a person just dumps his or her problems on other people. My dad was that person...

Please be aware, the story may contain triggers. Please stop reading if you feel you've had enough. I need to write and share this, but there is no need for you to suffer from what I wrote.

Today I feel strong. Usually I use...

I have mostly a grim feeling when I think about my childhood. For as long as I can remember, my dad would tease me, call me names, and make fun of me. My older brother would join in. This continued up until I hit puberty.
Along with...

An apology for all victims of abuse and a call to bring forth change:This should not have happened to you. You did not deserve to be treated like that. I just want to apologize on behalf of humanity, since I am a citizen. I also want...

That was the catchphrase growing up with my parents. As an adult, hearing something like that sends alarm bells ringing.
This is a story of how abuse and neglect nearly ruined me, but hasn't. I am two short years away from being thirty...

When I was 13 years old, I met this man, Let's just call him Dick..He work for my dad as a private driver hired by the division my dad runs.
At first I really liked him, he treated me like a brother since I don't have any other good...

From as early as I can remember, my mom was always abusive to me. She could always find something that I had "done" to give her a reason to hurt me. My mom was not only verbally abusive but she was also physically abusive.
Just typing...

So…dragonofjapan said something: “Yes, you were abused, but what are you going to do about it right now?”
So I was thinking about that.
What a lot of abuse survivors do…appears like wallowing. In some cases, it may actually...