“I've learned that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse and take longer to heal from.” — Jaycee Dugard Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse. Worse! You can heal broken bones; you can't heal a broken mind.” — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people. — George Pell Copy Share Image
“The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
It's just like Michael Jordan and the Detroit Pistons. They tried to take out the best player. Try to put as much… — Justin Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The greatest disease of mankind is a lack of love for children, leading to their psychological and sometimes even physical abuse, which… — Bernie Seigel Copy Share Image
“The most pernicious message relayed by pornography is that women are natural sexual prey to men and love it; that sexuality and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There were several parallels between Jonestown and Escuela Caribe. Both places used isolation to control a large group of people and censored… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months)… — Laura Mullen 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
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The dependence on the physical often occurs because many black men feel (rightfully or wrongfully) that they are not privy to the… — Ricky L. Jones Copy Share Image
“After spending five decades of being beaten down, mistreated, and stabbed in the back, little Dana grew up. Little Dana fearlessly faced… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed… — Temple Grandin 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 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
“I read this book in one sitting. A WOMAN RESURRECTED is the true, harrowing story of the author's abusive childhood -- from… — Cece Cervantes 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
“If you want what’s best for your kids, one surefire way to provide them with a healthy, happy home is to make… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Whatever proponents of false memory syndrome may claim and however persuasively they tell their stories and anecdotes, dissociative amnesia typically involves fragmented… — Jenny Ann Ryberg Copy Share Image
“It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another dark world… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“The symptoms of abuse are there, and the woman usually sees them: the escalating frequency of put-downs. Early generosity turning more and… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“And this charge plays out with partners, parents, friends, families and even our children. Many parents unconsciously ‘use’ their children so the… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
“When a woman is convinced that she can stop the violence in her marriage, her stubborn determination feeds her sense of failure… — Susan Weitzman Copy Share Image
“I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
“As porn has gone mainstream, ushered two decades ago into middle-class living rooms and dens with VCRs and now available on the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The far end of a continuum that aims to break the will of a child and allows the expression of displaced rage… — Chrystine Oksana 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
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
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