Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke...

Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both....

Take off your damned wrapper! The old buffer ordered, looking intensely at her lower part. Comfort was on her knees, rubbing the old man’s dirty feet. All her plea and tears continually worsen the whole...

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff

The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are:You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing.I can easily convince other people that you’re the one who is messed up.As long as I’m calm, you...

When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorated his body. Huge black bruises, long scars that came from sword lacerations and whips and new wounds that...

A paedophile is someone whose sexual attraction towards children their own age did not grow with them.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.

If these examples were perpetrated with relatively low credit limits, imagine the fraud, waste and abuse that will take place now that the credit limit has increased 16 times its original limit,

Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll

Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an exceedingly mild and gentle way, the ideas entertained by me, I congratulate myself...

Why isn’t there a commandment to “honor thy children” or at least one to “not abuse thy children”? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and...

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her sessions with him. His view reflects the fundamental mistake that untrained...

We have concerns about the abuse of the marine environment for commercial endeavors. We have to look at each one individually. However, it’s very clear that the marine environment is being looked at as real...

…Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child’s very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.

To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty...

Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her life, she tried to look up that person on the World Wide Web....

Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in...

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person oridea. The cults described in this book use violent tactics to recruit,indoctrinate, and keep members. Ritual abuse is defined as...

Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of...

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

It’s our position as a community coalition that substance abuse is more wide-spread than people realize, and it’s everywhere.

You owe me.” For each ounce he gives, he wants a pound in return. He wants his partner to devote herself fully to catering to him, even if it means that her own needs—or her...

The central attitudes driving the Victim are:Everybody has done me wrong, especially the women I’ve been involved with. Poor me.When you accuse me of being abusive, you are joining the parade of people who have...

All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!

Foster allegedly wheedled the victim into writing checks for Foster and Almeida’s use. It’s essentially a case of elder abuse.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Amnesia can affect both implicit...

Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by...

Have you ever gotten to a point where you looked at your own life, thought “Fu** this,” and reached for the economy-sized Valium? Ah, suicide. So dark and seductive.

Stallions,” Frank said, “they’re fightin’ over a girl. – DANIEL’S ESPERANZA

This is the truth about The Killer, ain’t it baby? You’re just a big ol’ bag of screams under all that big, bad muscle, ain’t you?

Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it all up? I went back to the industrial estate and found the castle....

Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are — to yourself.

Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, “SALIGIA” Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go...

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Don’t think that what you say fleetingly to one man be harmless. Your fleeting words can travel so fast and so lightly that soon enough they will end up hitting someone so hard that they...

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were...

We haven’t seen this kind of abuse of power since Richard Nixon.

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you’re made to believe the spell can never be broken.

The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

false memory” implantations.

As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up...

It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that...

Some scientists were conducting an experiment, he said, trying to gauge the impact of abuse on children. Ducks, like people, develop bonds between mother and young. They call it imprinting. So the scientists set out...