Child Abuse Story of Healing and Recovery From Leslie
by Leslie
(Los Angeles, USA)
I was actually doing quite well when I decided that, in fact, I was doing so well that I thought a therapist could help me get over the last hurdles.
Of course, I had not named what happened as child abuse, I was just doing quite well healing from the effects.
The therapist I got was not really competent, and I think he developed ill will and became abusive when he saw his ideas were not working.
I, on a walk one day, found myself in front of a battered women's shelter, found myself going in, found myself saying "I am suffering emotional abuse by a therapist." I only knew what my problem was when I heard myself say that.
In any case the depression all of this caused created life problems which led to deeper pain and only now, twenty years later, do I seem to be making some progress on that and on the original issue.
I see the magnitude of what happened originally, and it is shocking. I just hope that, now that there are so many more resources so much more easily available, that more people can heal more easily, without the twenty years of really deep pain I have been through.
I honestly wish I had never sought help, I was doing quite well on my own, recovering step by step, happy, setting better and better limits for people; I wish I had gone on that way.
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