It seems so sad to me that 'that ' addiction support group out there
deals so much with ..the member .. making amends but
very little about what to do when being the victim of the rage,
violence, invisibility, neglect, and other horrors. and how am I
the member to deal with the feelings of being hurt by the
non-compassion of other's toward me?

I think much would be healed if I did not have to hear "you need to
make amends" when it is 'him', or 'her ' that keeps coming back to
hurt me again and again and again. the pain swallows me up some days
and other days I feel lost in a bog of despair with no way out.

*S*