1982 don't put down your experience just because it was 5 years instead of 20. You still went though the abuse, you still know the feelings of walking on egg shells, the desire to please the fear of setting off the anger over that one tiny little thing that is not perfect. Your abuse is no less if it was random attack on a street corner that lasted 5 minuets or and everyday abuse in a locked ward for years on end. All of us victims need to stand together and support one another and grow strong with that support to become survivors. The differences between us are smaller than the room left over from the largest mountain passing though the eye of a needle. We know your pain, no matter how long it takes you to get it out, to tell your pdoc or boyfriend here there will always be people who understand. Take care. be gentle with yourself. You too Tamster and MrAspiring.  
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…Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …...
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