A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with fear and self-doubt. He has difficulty with the prospect of life...

We hope to drive a wedge into the gross abuse of bureaucracy.

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family...

I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement.

Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you...

The central attitudes driving the Terrorist are:You have no right to defy me or leave me. Your life is in my hands.Women are evil and have to be kept terrorized to prevent that evil from...

I trace the letters on the tree behind us in the picture. No one knows what’s churning inside of me. Crushing guilt…Pain…Relief. All mixed with knowledge that Trip is never coming back.

Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors...

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it’s a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn’t acknowledge it. When I am in denial, I have the tendency to minimize my abuse, believe the lies...

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.

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

Child abuse is not an isolated problem. It affects each of us and it is only through each of us that child abuse can be prevented.

I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt so good. It was justice, girl. The fucking law never gave...

As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had first discovered Lego. As I was growing up, I also saw Dr Robinson,...

Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.

Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people’s home. ~ Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered.” – excerpt from: freefalling

No matter how damaged we were by our lives, we are whole when we are together

I won’t put up with a woman who tries to put me down. But I might put out if she lets me put it in.

Paul unfortunately has relapsed into alcohol abuse. It wasn’t just away from the football club, it was prior to games, during games, in the dressing room, and during contract negotiations.

Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4

This bill is intended to do one thing, and that is to end the abuse that is now going on in the court system of America against law-abiding American businesses.

THE ABUSER’S PROBLEM IS NOT THAT HE RESPONDS INAPPROPRIATELY TO CONFLICT. HIS ABUSIVENESS IS OPERATING PRIOR TO THE CONFLICT: IT USUALLY CREATES THE CONFLICT, AND IT DETERMINES THE SHAPE THE CONFLICT TAKES.

normal.” Their minds work logically; they understand cause and effect; they don’t hallucinate. Their perceptions of most life circumstances are reasonably accurate. They get good reports at work; they do well in school or training...

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don’t yearn to reach out, but because they’ve tried and found no one who cares.

The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60’s and 70’s improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive...

The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of “grand hysteria” described by Jean-Martin Charcot, a French physician who became world-famous in...

In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life?...

If a parent was arrested for child endangerment or abuse the police would be calling us.

Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not ‘smash their mommy’...

He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can’t believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop.What...

We tend to see a lot of abuse of that and we spend a lot of time trying to reduce the demand for that type of drug, which is pretty extensive in this area.

I had some peculiar ideas about love. I’ll tell you what I thought on the subject back then: it’s about as much use as a barrel with no bottom. When I fed the pigs and...

There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American taxpayer through CIA and military contracts. It is past time for these abuses...

forget” the abuse and continue living. Without it, I may have gone crazy as a teen and spent my life in a as a teen and spent my life in a psychiatric hospital.

Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away.

I don’t want you to have to handle it. That’s the horror of my past. But you…you’re the reality of my present. You’re the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

I lie awake in my bed, clinging to the brightness I have known, fighting back the tide of darkness, the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelty that runs in...

No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.

Forcing your love on someone who doesn’t love you is an emotional rape, because your victim’s heart was not aroused, you jumped into it without foreplay.

Leave him.” But she knows it won’t be that easy. He will promise to change. He’ll get friends and relatives to feel sorry for him and pressure her to give him another chance. He’ll get...

really mean it,” because he will probably interpret that to mean that you don’t.3. If it happens a third time, or if he switches to other behaviors that are warning flags, chances are great that...