Healing
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Dont you start playing victim! (because that’s the role I have in mind for myself) I cant cope with… what youve just said, what youve just done…. (you’re expected to alleviate me, not challenge me, you’re supposed to soothe things…) You just need to take more responsibility (thats interesting, because ultimately, I’m taking all…
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Thank you for reading, this is part 4 of my survival story, do check out parts 1-3 in the menu to the right, though each part can be read separately. This one may contain details that could trigger. Growing up with psychopathic emotionally immature parents allowed me to develop asbestos feet, with all the walking…
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One way of surviving psychopathic parents was to become immersed in the world of trainspotting. The drugs, alcohol and destruction, and why I resonate with this 1996 film Though I joke somewhat, reacting to emotional abuse can easily easily end in a life that is filled with the destructive elements, that this film was renowned…
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Trigger Warning: Emotional Abuse, Spiritual Abuse, CPTSD, Narcissm, Child abuse. This piece contains material that may cause a reaction. Following Tanya Marlows quite brilliant piece on the statements that Christians have used in the wake of the RZMI revelations, in it she identifies a number of phrases that then get banded around, often excusing, minimising…
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I grew up with a psychopath One of my parents is a psychopath. I don’t say this lightly. My mother is a psychopath. There, I said it. I grew up with a psychopath A christian one. Just saying this out loud is pretty phenomenal, or is it? I mean didn’t you all do the facebook…
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One of the main reasons victims of abuse dont get believed is that the actions that perpetrators do is so shocking that no one could believe it actually happened. Ironically the same people who describe such things have to articulate something so awful and shocking, that it would be beyond their own mental capacity to…
James Ballantyne 