“In addition to reaching out for help, you will also need to reach within yourself. Your biggest ally will be your emotions.… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“Working simultaneously, though seemingly without a conscience, was Dr. Ewen Cameron, whose base was a laboratory in Canada's McGill University, in Montreal.… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Are you capable to truly distinguish the person you envision in the mirror?” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided I made, and… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson,… — Heather Bacon Copy Share Image
“Research has also revealed that women who have developed PTSD in relation to early childhood sexual abuse often develop borderline personality disorder.… — John M. Duffey Copy Share Image
“Damaged little girls are exactly what the porn industry preys upon and depends upon. It is estimated that 90% of porn performers… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
“Cheryl's growing awareness of her emotional difficulties was leading her to research multiple personality. As she had learned more about dissociation, she… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. — William P. Leahy 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 the Catholic Church insists that it is more sinful to use condoms in the midst of a sexually transmitted epidemic that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem… — Karen A. Duncan Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Despite this documentation for both traumatic amnesia and essentially accurate delayed recall, memory science is often presented as if it supports the… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
“Because there is beauty and there is art that celebrates it like a secret language, I was reassured and connected to something… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“Abused children often learn to block out their pain, for it is too distressing. Since it’s not possible to block emotions selectively,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
