Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence…

When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.

— Kent Brantly

“The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it…

— Robert Whitaker

“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time…

— Sue Richardson

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

— Tim Roth

“Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will…

— Beverly Engel

“The abused children feel so useless within that they become more vulnerable to exploitation in the future too.”

— Patricia Dsouza

I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the…

— Naomi Alderman

“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it…

— Erin Merryn

“Complexly traumatized children need to be helped to engage their attention in pursuits that do not remind them of trauma-related triggers and that give…

— Sarah Benamer

“Abused children realize that they cannot rely on their emotions since their innocent love and trust are already crushed and betrayed. They learn that…

— Patricia Dsouza

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in…

— Rick James

Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Im sick of my abuse

— Slowly_fading

“I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?”

— Eskay Teel