226 Quotes About Survivors
- Author Chinonye J. Chidolue
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Her eyes bled from venomous anger...Her flower had been gruesomely deflowered...Her life had slowly turned into a blunder...There was no more thinking further....She would rather become a Foetus murderer Than end up a "hopeless" mother....Of course, she found peace in the formerUntil later years of emotional traumaOh, the foetus hunt was forever!The only thing you should abort is the thought of aborting your baby. Stop the hate and violence against innocent children.
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- Author Alison Miller
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Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive aspects, along with a premeditated structure of torture-enforced lessons. The phenomena was first labeled "ritual abuse," and, later, as our understanding developed, "mind control.
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- Author Mary E. DeMuth
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We are to be agents of His great upside down Kindgom, where the outcasts are listened to, the broken are given dignity, and those suffering under the weight of sexual exploitation are rescued and healed.
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- Author David L. Calof
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She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.
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#abuse #incest #post-traumatic-stress-disorder #posttraumatic-stress-disorder #ptsd #subconscious #subconscious-mind #survivors #trauma-memories #traumatic-experiences #healing-insights #healing-from-abuse #healing #abuse-survivors #abusive-parents #avoidance #child-abuse #child-rape #childhood-abuse #defense-mechanism
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- Author Alison Miller
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Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.
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- Author Lynette Gould
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Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
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- Author Claudia Rankine
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Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is beyond me.
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- Author Judith Lewis Herman
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In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.
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- Author Michael Harriot
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The most marvelous, unbelievable thing about Black people in America is that they exist. Every imaginable monstrosity that evil can conjure has been inflicted on this population, yet they have not been extinguished.
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