The history, Science and Our Experience. Many people use the concept of "fabricated memories" and some doubt the psychology field around repression of memories to dismiss people who experienced childhood abuse, often sexual abuse and incest. They often site ideas of Social Contagion Theory, retracted testimony, manipulated children (who were often suffering other abuse) and … Continue reading Opinion Article: Do we Believe in Repressed Memories?
Welcome To The Survivors Healing Survivors Community
We are aiming to create a community where survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, abbreviated often as CSA can support others who have experienced the same abuse. We support all survivors of childhood sexual abuse of all genders, sexualities, races, religions, disability status and ethnicities. Abuse and trauma no boundaries, and neither does our support and … Continue reading Welcome To The Survivors Healing Survivors Community
Symptom Explainers: Body Memories
Also called Somatic Flashbacks Body memories are a kind of flashback specifically of somatic symptoms. It’s a flashback that instead of visual or auditory memories of traumatic events being relived it's the sensations and sensory inputs of your other 3 senses (touch/smell/taste). Flashbacks are usually triggered by reminders of the abuse. These can be mundane … Continue reading Symptom Explainers: Body Memories
Diagnosis Primer: Dissociative Disorders
In this post, I’m going to give an outline of Dissociative identity disorder (DID) and Other Specified Dissociative disorder (OSDD). These two disorders are terribly misunderstood due to horrible representation in media, a lack of education on the topic. Many people still refer DID as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) an outdated term from when DID … Continue reading Diagnosis Primer: Dissociative Disorders
Question: How can I be brave enough to say the terms ‘rape’ and shared details of trauma?
You can write about it put the details on paper. You don’t have to share all of those details with people but it can help it feel less bottled up and more acceptable to say if you have made it real on paper. After writing you can try saying rape and other specifics to yourself. … Continue reading Question: How can I be brave enough to say the terms ‘rape’ and shared details of trauma?
For Loved Ones: Supporting Someone Who is A CSA Survivor
Originally Posted on Tumblr Often times when someone learns someone they care about has gone through CSA it can feel overwhelming. They go through a lot of emotions and can struggle to understand what to do next. If you’re in that situation, or you are a survivor who has someone in your life you want … Continue reading For Loved Ones: Supporting Someone Who is A CSA Survivor
Coping Skills: Healing A Relationship With Sex After Sexual Abuse
This post is going to focus on our relationship mainly with the concept of sex, masturbation and partner sex. Sexual violence at any age will affect the way the victim of the violence relates to sex. This is heightened with trauma at exceptionally young ages as the survivors never developed a relationship to sex in … Continue reading Coping Skills: Healing A Relationship With Sex After Sexual Abuse
Informational Article: Factors In Traumatization, Presentation of Trauma Symptoms, and Development of Mental Illness
This line of thinking can become a bit of a suffering contest putting some conditions, often DID/OSDD as the most traumatized with the only real trauma and the person who might not be suffering from a severe mental health condition didn’t go through anything, that isn’t true either. There is no gold star way to experience trauma and making a hierarchy of suffering helps no one.When looking at experiences of trauma survivors, understanding the way kids develop mental health conditions, and how we can best support healing for kids we need a larger view of all of this.
Coping Skills: Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts that intrude into the thoughts process of those who deal with them. They are commonly associated with OCD, PTSD, eating disorders, addiction and self-harm. Intrusive thoughts are not just thoughts that seem random or unskilled (that called thinking), and they aren’t always accompanied by the urge do something (compulsions). They … Continue reading Coping Skills: Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts
Informational Article: The Difference between Sexual Abuse & Sexual Harassment
They are used mostly as synonymous in common usage of the terms. Sexual harassment is an umbrella term for a range of inappropriate sexual acts, it can be broken into some common types: verbal harassment includes: using misogynistic or homophobic language (w/sexual undertones), rape jokes, inappropriate/unwanted sexual comments, propositions of sexual interactions, catcalling, or unsolicited sexual stories. … Continue reading Informational Article: The Difference between Sexual Abuse & Sexual Harassment
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