Emotional abuse
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Anyone panic when that message or that text or email arrives? From ‘that’ person? Its like a shock, a reaction, pangs of fear, of guilt and brain on overload… Sometimes it is just better to block them, to avoid this possibility, but what if that isn’t possible..there needs to be contact? After 6 months of…
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One of the confusing things about growing up and living with someone who is emotionally abusive (and this also applies to physically abusive too), is that they are rarely abusive all the time. Some people are, and that id learned to switch off from my parents at an early age would indicate that I knew…
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Christ is the Head of this house So far, in parts 1-17 of my story of what I needed to do to survive psychopathic parenting, I have talked alot about emotional abuse, emotional neglect, narcissism and the drama triangle, and the eggshells that had top be continually walked upon. I haven’t really talked about the…
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‘Why are you reading those, they’re just children books’ I once said to my late friend Bex Lewis about 7 years ago, and then I sat with her and watched a scene of one of the films, one with dementors in, I think. Fast forward a few years and my daughter Anna proposed that we…
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Ask yourself the question; ‘What book saved your life’? If you are in anyway spiritual, then it might be likely that a sacred text, the Bible or the Ko’ran might be the book that went some way to saving your life. But aside from a sacred text – can you name a book that ,…
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Im not going to feel that now No, its not going to hurt me, I’m going to go rigid Switching off Numb I decided not to feel anything from a long time ago. It was the easiest thing at the time. It was more than that, it was a self protective thing, because of the…
James Ballantyne 