The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within...

His worst fantasy her realityhe pulls the stringsdoes unspeakable thingsA sadistic entrancefor his acceptance

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

Free yourself from any emotional trauma. Dwell on positive thoughts, the strength for your soul.

I could tell he wanted the best for me. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out. Everyone always thought that, not of what we had to go back to, at home. Maybe our...

what is abusing to a person ?while there is no trust while both are sharing pain,happiness,room,bed,and body,

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

Each human being deals with hurt or resentment in a unique way. When you feel insulted or bullied, you may reach for a chocolate bar. In the same circumstance, I might burst into tears. Another...

crimes of passion.” But what could more thoroughly prove that a man did not love his partner? If a mother were to kill one of her children, would we ever accept the claim that she...

The patterns learned as a child, repeat as an adult. Those with an abusive childhood are very often oh-so blind to this inescapable truth.— André Chevalier

Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be...

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Then why don’t I tell on him?If they don’t, why don’t I?Because.Because I am safe this way,silent unnoticed.

I love you but I got to love me more.

Don’t play his game. Play yours.

I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it.And now...

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I didn’t know. What I did know was that I felt less prone to...

Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and gives them a sense that they aren’t alone, that there is hope, then...

Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life’s toil worth this every morning?

In cases of organized and multi-perpetrator abuse when the abuse occurs in the context of rituals and ceremonies, some elements of the experience may have been staged specifically with the intention of encouraging the disbelief...

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen...

Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

If there’s any guy crazy enough to attack me, I’m going to show him the end of the world — close up. I’m going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes....

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn’t talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He...

I understand true life doesn’t happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room is a privileged space dedicated to memory. Within that space, survivors gain the...

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.” Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

Oedipus complex,” which became the foundation of modern psychology. According to this theory any young girl actually desires sexual contact with her father, because she wants to compete with her mother to be the most...

One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don’t seem like abusers. They have many good qualities, including times of kindness, warmth, and humor, especially in the...

How long y’ think it’ll take t’git that wild streak out im?””Well, Brother Tiggins, that’ll depend on how long he can weather the leather.

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Why are you dressed as a man?” Neeva said. “Why do you act like…” She paused. “Why do you act like… like one of them?” Her voice rose, challenging and accusatory. “Them,” she said again....

Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we...

The advantage of beating a mute is he can’t tell on you.

He made my mom call and tell Maureen I wouldn’t be in to see her anymore. He said therapy is a waste of money. He also told her to upgrade the cable service and to...

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

If the FBI’s motivating factor for busting down the Koresh compound was child abuse, how come we never see Bradley tanks smashing into Catholic churches?

But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I’m nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be...

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all.” – excerpt from: freefalling

The real form of abuse is not a physical torture; it’s mismanagement of purpose by misunderstanding God!

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.

My understanding is there was a strong, close, loving relationship with his father, there was no hint of abuse.

Don’t you love your mother, dear?””I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.

I don’t forgive him,” I said.”Hell, no, you don’t. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what’s he done to help you get on with yours?

Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it’s ugly to look at.

Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be...