Can’t report what isn’t known

Many people don’t consider a parent’s rage as being abnormal because living through it is their normal. Many don’t consider physical abuse as being abnormal because living through it is their normal. Many don’t consider their parent abandoning them, never knowing them or scapegoating them is neglect, because unfortunately it is all they know. Every …

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Dysmorphic Identity

As an incest survivor and spending my whole life in and out of treatment for an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, I now counsel others who suffer from complex trauma. Most of my clients had terrorizing childhoods and almost all suffered a breech in personal boundaries through touch. If a child can't protect itself, it …

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