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I Survived A Fundamentalist Cult

Now, I have a list of conditions a mile long I am beside myself with joy. I am not feeling traumatized at all. I want to thank Jon Krakauer a million times over for what he has done for me. You see, this week, I told my Facebook friends and…

Spiritual Abuse

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May 9

We Are a Nation Destroyed by Mental Health

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Benjamin Sledge

You have officially escorted me into a night of suicidality.

You have officially escorted me into a night of suicidality. I needed to be treated for trauma in 1977 and again in 1978. Then again in 1979. In each case, not minor trauma, major multiple sexual offender in a cult, parental abandonment for two months with a cult where the…

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May 8

Evil Goes On Offense

From first thing in the morning until late at night I absolutely believed in an infallible Heavenly Father who protected me. My prayers were hotlined straight to an all-wise, all-knowing, all-loving God.

Trauma

3 min read

May 8

My Name Is Deborah Megivern

My story is not fiction and I’m not hiding like it is For many years now, I have been writing on Medium under the pen name, Jordan Bray. Jordan is my grandmother’s maiden name, and Bray is the name of a great grandfather who served in the Civil War on…

Deborah Megivern

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Apr 11

He’s Guilty of Being a Sexual Predator

He led me on with words that were lies I have a tattoo of the initial of a Tinder hookup. That’s all it should ever have been was a hookup. But it wasn’t. Anthonie Gene Collins matched with me in July 2019. I said I was looking for a friend…

Sexual Abuse

4 min read

Dec 3, 2021

It felt Like I Met the Devil

I wanted to get away, but I couldn’t — Once I titled this, “Never sacrifice your values,” yet I revise that opinion. I don’t actually regret shaking up my value system for a while. It doesn’t hurt to question yourself. The lesson becomes chasing the highs of an unforgettable romance may cost you your values and inflict immeasurable pain.

Infatuation

21 min read

Oct 27, 2021

Origami Phoenix

Rebuilt but fragile

Poem

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Origami Phoenix

Oct 26, 2021

until you find someone who “gets you.” I mean literally make an appoint…s does not mean going door to door through your neighborhood until you find someone who “gets you.” I mean literally make an appointment with a trained therapist. Then keep going back until you heal, or get a more competent therapist.

Jordan, you are clearly and by your own admission a deeply wounded and traumatized individual.

Adam Murauskas

You make yourself available on the internet.

You make yourself available on the internet. A publically resourced, government-founded network. But, if someone from outside the "norm" of shiny, happy people has something to say about toxic positivity, it can't be seen as worthy of being criticism. It has to be worthy of only sarcasm and victim blaming. …

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Oct 25, 2021

The Disconnect Between Working Class Writers and the Writer Elite

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Walter Rhein

I'm not rich enough to be working class, but I definitely relate to your bifurcation.

I'm not rich enough to be working class, but I definitely relate to your bifurcation. I was training to be an elite writer, because I completed my PhD and wrote book chapters and journal articles. However, I encountered sexual harassment and ended up a working class writer.

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Oct 23, 2021

An Open Letter To Anyone Misusing These Three Words

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Annie Tanasugarn, PhD

Are people using them incorrectly necessarily?

Are people using them incorrectly necessarily? Most of the people I know would be ashamed to identify anything less than what I have experienced to be trauma (three rapes, sexual abuse when I was six, foster care when I was ten, physical abuse and neglect from parents, a stroke, having…

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