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    Judith Lewis Herman
    “Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom.

    But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.

    She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
    ― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-suffering, childhood-trauma
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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “the seriousness of emotional deprivation:

    It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so they can go on to lead normal lives. If, however, the starvation is severe enough, the damage will be permanent and they will suffer physical impairments for the rest of their lives. Likewise, children who are deprived of emotional nurturing require care and love if their sense of security and self-confidence is to be restored. However, if love is minimal and abuse high, the damage will be permanent and the children will suffer emotional impairments for the rest of their lives.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski
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    Eloisa James
    “She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.”
    ― Eloisa James, An Affair Before Christmas
    tags: child-abuse, daughters, mothers
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  • #4
    In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never
    “In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-abuse, disclosure, dissociative-amnesia, dysfunctional-family, family-torn-apart, incest, insane, repressed, repressed-memories
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: abuse, abusers, child-abuse, psychology, trauma
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: abuse, avoidance, child-abuse, denial, psychology, trauma
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, akin to believing that we can escape the endless constraints of gravity, and fly off a tall building. “I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: abuse, avoidance, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, crazy, denial, madness, psychology, psychotherapy, self-knowledge, therapy, trauma, unhealthy
    32 likes

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    Ben Stein
    “Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.”
    ― Ben Stein
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, education, emotional-abuse, pain, parenting, sadness, school, verbal-abuse
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    Erin Merryn
    “Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.”
    ― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, childhood-sexual-abuse, coping, fear, pain, ptsd, sexual-abuse, tears, trauma, trigger, triggering
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  • #10
    “All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.”
    ― Heyward Ewart, AM I BAD? Recovering From Abuse
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, belief-system, child-abuse, child-abuse-survivors, core-beliefs, dysfunctional-families, emotional-abuse, healing, influence, manipulation, parenting, parents, survivors
    35 likes

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    Stefan Molyneux
    “The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: child-abuse, mental-health, mental-illness, psychology, psychotherapy, trauma, truth
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, psychology, suffering, trauma
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  • #13
    “How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.”
    ― Howard Markel
    tags: child-abuse, children
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    “On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.”
    ― Marcia Sirota
    tags: abuse, alienation, child-abuse, childhood-abuse, denial, deny, family-secrets, forbidden, hidden, incest, neglect, parenting, pretend, reality, secret
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  • #15
    “A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with fear and self-doubt. He has difficulty with the prospect of life without someone else. The devaluing messages of control and manipulation create dependency so those who most need to leave their family of origin are the least equipped to do so.”
    ― Christina Enevoldsen
    tags: abuse, abusive-family, abusive-parents, child-abuse, child-abuse-effects, dependency, doubt, fear, healing-from-abuse, manipulation, self-doubt, unhealthy
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  • #16
    “When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am in denial, I have the tendency to minimize my abuse, believe the lies others have said, as well as deny it ever happened. It is important for me to remember as much detail as I can so I can trust my own perceptions of what really happened and not depend on the validations from others.”
    ― Patty Hite
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivor, child-abuse, denial, deny, healing, minimise, perception, recovery, survivor, trust
    18 likes



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