How to Handle Forms Requesting Contact Information for Abusive Relatives

As I shared yesterday, my son will soon be transferring to a private school that specializes in working with children with ADHD and learning disabilities. Hub and I are hopeful that this school can offer the “miracle cure” that we need. Our son is far too bright to be failing third grade. I took my [...]

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Great Quote about Dissociative Identity Disorder

I have a very busy day ahead of me today. After going back and forth for over a month, hub and I have decided to transfer our son to a private school that specializes in working with children with ADHD and learning disabilities. This is wonderful news, but I have a lot of work to [...]

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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Wolf Alter Part

I have previously written about animal alter parts. I shared at the time that I have an alter part that is a wolf. When I was a little girl, I thought the scariest creature on the planet was the wolf in the story “Peter and the Wolf,” so I created an alter part to “protect” [...]

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Very Badly Triggered Last Week

Oh, boy, did I have a bad day last week. I was triggered so badly that I could barely stay in my body. I could not function. I could not work. I could not stop crying for four straight hours. It was a very bad day. I won’t go into all of the details that [...]

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DID: Did the Alter Part Integrate or Lie Dormant?

On my blog entry entitled DID: Feeling Like a Different Person While Integrating, a reader posted the following comment: One thing I found confusing in your post is in the paragraph about Sassy [an alter part who enjoyed sex]. You talked about other parts over-ruling her once she integrated. I wonder then how you know [...]

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Healing From Child Abuse: How Long Until It Gets Better?

A question that I frequently receive from readers is how long it takes to heal from child abuse. I, too, asked the same question when I was new to healing. I was having flashbacks every night, nightmares, insomnia, and feeling like I was losing my mind. I sought therapy, and one of the first questions [...]

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How to Stop an Addiction/Compulsion of Self-Injury through Masturbation

On my blog entry entitled Masturbation as a Form of Self-Injury after Sexual Child Abuse, a reader asked the following question: Faith, thank you so much for this blog. It is so nice to hear that I am not the only one who does this. That in itself brings a huge weight off my shoulders. [...]

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S&M after Child Abuse

I have received emails from several readers asking about my opinion of sado-masochism (S&M) after child abuse. In some cases, the person is engaging in S&M as a consenting adult. In other cases, the person has been viewing S&M pornography. The emails I receive ask my opinion of engaging in these actions, whether as active [...]

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Why Do People Blog About Sexual Abuse?

I was recently contacted by a college student who is writing his Master’s thesis on how blogging helps adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. I gave him permission to use excerpts from my blog as part of his thesis. Now I am going to make his job very easy for him because this is a [...]

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Enjoying the Plateau

Today has been a good day. I got a good night’s rest with no nightmares. When I weighed in this morning, my weight was the lowest it has been in a year. (I am glad that something positive came out of that awful stomach virus!) Then, I went online and saw that I had finally [...]

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