Tag: child abuse
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Shifting flashbacks. Sorting through a messy history.
I have noticed something since starting therapy. Previously all the flashbacks I suffered were fixed. The same images the same points in time thrown into my present thought. And historically I treated them all the same…pushed them aside, literally shook them off, distracted myself and tried to crack on with stuff. They weren’t relevant or…
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Survivors guilt. I survived and thrived, they barely stay alive.
Sometimes I feel guilty for the life I have. I feel awful for all the children who suffered in their childhood and never really made it out. Even the ones who survived often face a life of struggles, crafted by their beginning. So many of them get lost in a system designed to teach them…
Rowan Aderyn 