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Talking through trauma and PTSD

Running

Running

"Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no choice"

My life is all about a lack of choice.

I'm alive because death would've outed him, it would have sealed his fate in prison.

TW: cultic, rape, trafficking, torture

I'm the daughter of a Satanist...

One trained to breed...

One pregnant at 6 years old...

One prostituted to whoever could afford her...

The girl her dad didn't want...

One men hired to have fun with...

One men experimented with...

One who was tortured for speaking up...

One trained for the sole purpose to please her buyer...

Regardless of age...

Still though...

One who never stayed silent...

One who broke free... twice...

One who rose up...

One who seeks to prove them wrong...

One who has been running for 15 years...

One who just needs to feel heard...

One who went through hell and survived...

That this Phoenix can rise...

She will not be burned...

She's proven that...

I have proven that...

I'm 35 and 90% of those I've been in prolonged abusive situations insufficient evidence for prosecution

A system that protects the abuser more than the survivor

And yet I still try

I don't try for me, I try for the ones after me, the ones like me, that they will see their justice

But for now I run...

From a dad that wants me silenced...

From the nightmares that plague my sleep...

From the memories that invade my mind...

From the choices made for me...

Didn't expect that to come out as poetic as it did

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I lost my temper last night because again the same faeces head took my choice away from me and didn't tell me.

I took it out on my shower wall.

My right wrist is now swollen.

I hate asking for help

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Hey @avant-garde

I'm really sorry that you were put in another situation where your agency was taken away. Did you want to talk about what happened?

I know that asking for help can be really hard, but is there any way that we can help today?

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I wrote this last night

@Ru-bee

I contacted the people who are meant to be helping me move tomorrow and turns out B told S that he's not needed that B and J will get my furniture from C's mum's shed and C will meet us at my new home in the afternoon.

I'd organised S to help me with my boxes in the morning with C's ute

B told S that it's not needed

B didn't tell me ANY of this

And let's throw in the fact that I've never met this J fellow which is C's step dad.

A stranger is going to know where I live

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I'm hearing how this changing of plans without asking, or even letting you know, could tap into other times when you've had your agency and choice taken away @avant-garde, and having C who is a stranger to you know where you live could understandably make you feel less safe.

Is this typical behaviour from B, or might this be them not realising how this might affect you?

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@Ru-bee

It's J not C that I haven't met.

It is typical behaviour of B

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Oh sorry, that's my mistake @avant-garde

That's very frustrating, is it something that you've spoken to B about before?

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@Ru-bee

Yes multiple times, he's the deacon from my church and I've even talked to my elder about it and he's talked to him

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@Ru-bee

Previously that is, not this time... I'm anxious that they won't take me seriously, that they'll just go "this again"

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Yeah I get that @avant-garde, it can be hard to speak up when we feel like we might not be taken seriously or understood, but I wonder if maybe that "this again" thought will be regarding B who has been repeating this behaviour despite being made aware of the way it impacts you

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@Ru-bee

I don't know but it's not like they'll actually do anything to change the behaviour

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