“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Here's my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger, and enjoy. — Meredith Grey Copy Share Image
“How you choose to feel today should not be dependent on others.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Don't play with someone's heart if you have no purpose for a serious relationship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The mind fabricates and believes in whatever it wants to conclude is true because of what occurs on the spur of the… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“We require to get out of our own built up Cocoons, these need to be worn, softened and freed through.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
She will cry and get over it, she will hate you and then love you again but, one day she will leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
People only claim to love until they suck you dry...then move on to another victim. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is my personal opinion that all survivors can go from victim to victor and live more than a survivor.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.” — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
Becoming Miss Universe made me realize that women worldwide face the same challenges daily, such as various forms of violence and crime,… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
The results of verbal, physical, and emotional abuse can have long-lasting, psychologically damaging effects on a person, making them believe they are… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t some mysterious adverse personality trait that comprises of who I am, it unquestionably had a source - A cradle of… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take… — Heyward Ewart Copy Share Image
“Neglect transpires when the accountable adult fails to provide sufficiently for the needs of a child. It may be deliberate and conscious… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The central attitudes driving the Drill Sergeant are: I need to control your every move or you will do it wrong. I… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“And I suppose the saddest thing for me, thinking about Oranges , is that I wrote a story I could live with.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate… — David M. Allen Copy Share Image
“Narcissists play a public game and a private game which makes it harder to understand. Expressing your concerns suddenly turns you into… — Tracy Malone Copy Share Image
“The central attitudes driving Mr. Right are: You should be in awe of my intelligence and should look up to me intellectually.… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The central attitudes driving the Terrorist are: You have no right to defy me or leave me. Your life is in my… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Domestic violence is just as much a quality-of-life and liberty for community, social, and legal attention to support mental, emotional, health, wellness… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“The fact of the matter is, if you haven’t been in an abusive relationship, you don’t really know what the experience is… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“When a man’s face contorts in bitterness and hatred, he looks a little insane. When his mood changes from elated to assaultive… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The woman knows from living with the abusive man that there are no simple answers. Friends say: “He’s mean.” But she knows… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“YOUR ABUSIVE PARTNER DOESN’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIS ANGER; HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR ANGER. One of the basic human… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“loss of self-esteem Beverly Engel, in The Emotionally Abused Woman (1990), describes the effect of emotional abuse on self-esteem: Emotional abuse cuts… — Paul Mason Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
![“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his…” quote by Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02a/gillian-flynn-316_abuse_my-father-was-a-mid-level-phonecompany-m_2788017.jpg)
