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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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Oct 27, 2021

Origami Phoenix

Rebuilt but fragile My soul had been refired so many times But I have never been formed as rock My phoenix has always been delicate Paper formed like origami to a flock

Poem

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Origami Phoenix

Rebuilt but fragile

My soul had been refired so many times

But I have never been formed as rock

My phoenix has always been delicate

Paper formed like origami to a flock

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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Oct 23, 2021

Yes! As a relationship coach, I’ve helped women escape ghastly relationships with psychopathic…

Adam Murauskas

I think this is what struck me.

I think this is what struck me. I left Medium a year or so ago to spend time on TikTok making videos. It turned out to be wildly more successful than writing for me. Apparently, I am better at lip syncing old 80s music and batting fake eyelashes than I…

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Oct 23, 2021

Where Avoidant Attachment Style Comes From and Why It’s So Misunderstood

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Adam Murauskas

I gotta be honest, Adam.

I gotta be honest, Adam. I see that you are happily married to your wife and I think, this is not my guide. I need the women on TikTok who have been in narcissistically abusive relationships like me to talk to me about what it is like to date a…

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Oct 22, 2021

You’re Still Here, Deal With It

Running Out of Time To Do Things You Never Do — “You’re running out of time to enjoy fall colors,” droned the television midday news. It was so much more ominous than they realized. I am only fifty. But I have just had an embolic stroke. That’s the kind that is caused when a blood clot breaks up and goes to…

Stroke

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Sep 29, 2018

Ten Things You’ll Be Surprised I Haven’t Already Told You

When you write memoir-based pieces, it feels like it’s all kinda already out there, but… I was a probation officer right after college graduation for three months while my internship supervisor went on maternity leave. It was one part hilarious, because of my appearance, which is not intimidating. I have…

Life

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Ten Things You’ll Be Surprised I Haven’t Already Told You

I Survived A Fundamentalist Cult

You have officially escorted me into a night of suicidality.

Origami Phoenix

Origami Phoenix

You make yourself available on the internet.

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

Are people using them incorrectly necessarily?

I think this is what struck me.

I gotta be honest, Adam.

You’re Still Here, Deal With It

Ten Things You’ll Be Surprised I Haven’t Already Told You

Deborah Megivern