Feeling the Need to Coddle or Protect My Mother/Abuser

I was blown away by the number of responses I received to my blog entry entitled Letter to Mother Messing with My Head after Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse. The timing is doubly interesting because her birthday is coming up. I had not even thought about her birthday until I flipped the calendar and saw the notation. [...]

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Rant: Misuse of the Word “Trauma”

Today’s blog entry is a rant, and this is something that (unfortunately) happens a lot. I really, really hate it when people apply the word “trauma” to trivial crap that people will get over in a few hours or days. Let me give you an example. One person told me about a woman who had [...]

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Hypervigilance Gene Identified in Child Abuse Survivors

Over on my professional adoption blog, one of my partners wrote an interesting blog entry entitled Early Abuse Severe Neglect Damages Genes. I went looking for the original article, and I found two: here and here. According to a study that will be published in a journal called Nature Neuroscience, child abuse survivors have lower [...]

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