“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had grown with me through my teens, my twenties, my thirties, an unacknowledged mentor directing my every… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who did them… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't until 1984 that the Department of Health added the category of "sexual abuse" to its list of harms that can befall children? When I was being raped and made pregnant at the age of 11, it wasn't just… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share
“No, my GP hadn’t ever heard of dissociative disorders and just wanted to prescribe medication, but I could still build a good, supportive relationship… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal gangs, which… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may deny that… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
