trauma

At its core, trauma can be thought of as the psychological wounds that persist, even when the physical ones are long gone.

The Trout.
Once there was a rainbow trout who lived in the babbling brook. Maggie was just born that summer, but the trout was a year older.
By Luke Logan5 years ago in Psyche
On Trauma & Abuse
Huge TW for abuse here I learned at a very young age the true monsters to be feared are your fellow humans, they are who lurk in the shadows and follow you home. They are the ones who understand human emotion and torment you regardless. I was like most any child at first, I loved my parents and I adored my cat. You couldn't see the trauma slipping through the lines in my book yet.
By L.D. Malachite 5 years ago in Psyche
My Last Night of College
TW: sexual assault & intimate partner violence We cannot erase and replace the things that have happened to us with what we wished would have happened instead. You cannot go back; you can only move forward. It happened, and there is nothing you can do to change that now. You can only change how you move forward and heal.
By Becky Curl5 years ago in Psyche
Evil among us
At the age of five, you have no idea what is happening to you, all you know is that an adult in your family is hurting you. I remember it clear as day as he would come into the bedroom where I and my siblings slept. He would start with my sister and then move on to me, I didn’t know it at the time but this man was raping us as we slept. He would do it from the backside as not to alarm my mother when taking us to any doctor appointment, not that she would have believed us if we were able to verbalize what was going on. This was the first of many men in my family that would have their way with us, but I will only speak about my experience.
By Raven5 years ago in Psyche
The "S" Word
Sobriety. What a scary word. It’s a word I wished for almost a decade that I would never have to say yet yearned for at the same time. I suppose it means different things to different people but for me it meant not drinking. I wouldn’t consider myself an alcoholic, but I saw the signs.
By Kelsey Burton5 years ago in Psyche
I Should Have Known Better
This is a trigger warning, I do apologize At the age of 16, I couldn't look at myself in the mirror with the lights on. To preface this story, I suppose I should take a quick detour back to the beginning. At the age of 2 and a half, I was adopted by my biological aunt and her second husband to save me from my meth addicted parents. My aunt and uncle took me in and chose to raise me, and I learned to call them Mom and Dad. And that's what they truly became.
By Audra Mitter5 years ago in Psyche
The Truth Hurts
The collective research on trauma, memory, diet, new people and how they work together. I am unsure how to explain but everyone has been traumatized. Not everyone stays traumatized. Through simple logic and experience or therapy eventually overcome those feelings and accept the event.
By Janessa Kara5 years ago in Psyche
Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse
My own personal story I have been wanting to get out for a long time now but I just never had an outlet. Luckily I stumbled across this site and thought now is the perfect time to share my story. It takes courage to come out after years and years of sexual abuse. You have been conditioned to believe it was somehow your fault and in a way, you feel quite guilty. However, I am now getting stronger and stronger and am not ashamed. I would love to share my story in order to help others who have gone through or are going through abuse. Hopefully this gives them courage to speak out as well and the strength to know you CAN keep going. There's recovery in the horizon and I encourage everyone to seek that journey.
By Joy Renee5 years ago in Psyche
Damn! My Life
Damn! My Life. By Nakia Wade Introduction. To many abuse, is just something they read or hear about. It is that friend who acts funny, the one your parents would never let you stay at their house. And would never give you a reason why. But for many it is the world they continue to live in, even as adults. A world misunderstood by those around, a world people on the outside could never begin to understand. A world cold and lonely, filled with hurts, pain and constant darkness. A world I know all too well.
By Nakia Wade5 years ago in Psyche
She who was harmed
(Warning for child abused) Trigger warnings for emotional abuse, physically and child abused. All the stories show their mother and father being kind to them. Laughing. With big happy smiles, helping one another out then there was her it made her think something was off. It made her think if something was wrong.
By Valerie Daniel5 years ago in Psyche
My childhood- trauma came back to haunt me
Over a year ago I couldn’t have imagined the call I was about to take. Little did I know, as I set up a new life in the city that everything was to come crashing down around me.
By Noor Jahan5 years ago in Psyche
Navigating Trauma
One thing I learned early on is everyone has different forms of trauma. I want to share some background before I dive into the healing process. I grew up in a poor household that held a lot of neglect and abuse for me and my 5 siblings. Looking back, I describe my childhood as a whole different life than the one I am living now. On top of neglect and abuse, we also spent long periods of time in the Foster Care System. If anyone has lived part or all of their life in Foster Care, you know that there is abuse and neglect that can be worse than the environment that you were taken out of. In our situation, we were taken because or mother chose to continue using drugs over working to get her children back. Her choices led to all of us getting split up and living separately. I was adopted at 11 years old and spent the next 9 years as an only child. I never had the chance to process my past in a healthy manner and as a child, that caused me to struggle a lot. I didn't allow people to get close to me, I felt that I had to do everything on my own and I did not allow myself to get close to people. Once I felt safe and happy I would cause problems to separate myself from those feelings, which resulted in hurting myself and/or those around me.
By Paige Gray5 years ago in Psyche