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What happened to me as a kid was a tragedy and it almost broke me. The human spirit and heart are resilient however, and they bent but did not break. We came here from Europe, before I turned six, and my dad bought a piece of land in a lakeside community, and had a new house built. On outward appearance, it was a paradise, oh my, are looks ever deceiving, There is a Clive Barker novel titled, "The Great and Secret Show," I can think of nothing more appropriate to describe this place. There were a pair of younger male adults which had been at work for years in this community. We moved in right next door to one of them, and man did they zero in on me. The blond haired, blue eyed little boy, who at that time had a British accent and whose father was frequently away. There was like a ring of silence that was loped around the younger male teens. Not all of them were like this, but some of them were, to this day I don't know why? I guess they had taken that for years and for some it had turned inward on them, and they were afraid of the two men. Their primary purpose was to keep a tight knit control of those in my group, and they made VHS tapes of us to sell. I saw some of these transactions and people paid a great deal of money for them. As I got older, and my father would be away, some of us were sent to spend the night with people. Oh, what a book I could write about that, we called those barn nights, as there was a large barn on the top of a hill above my house. When available they would get us all spiffed up and it was like people coming to shop. There were those that really liked me because I was withdrawn and really quiet. There was one boy who spoke out, he did not live in the community but was there often enough visiting his best friend, so they thought he was safe. He was assaulted of course and the following Monday, went and told the middle school guidance counselor. I came home and that place looked like a Christmas tree as there were cops and social workers everywhere. There were two waiting for me at our home, and they grilled me for nearly two and a half hours. To this day, I cannot explain this, but I did what everyone else from that community also did, I lied. So, nothing changed, and the poor kid that reported it was harassed so much at school. His parents had to move to a different town and put him in another school. We were not old and sophisticated enough yet to realize if more would have spoke up, this would have not been the result. We saw this as an absolute barrier from which there was no escape. luckily for me, genetics kicked in when I was around 14 and I started getting big. Plus my dad me enrolled in TTJC Taekwondo, it was enough to start to make the predators fearful. I did not let this turn inward on me, I never harmed anyone, but I would protect younger people of the community when I could. I left for college at 16 and never returned to that F'n place. Later, I helped the police see to it that the older of the two adult men that organized that fiasco, got 25 years in prison. He is now doing life, because when his sentence was up he assaulted his half brother's youngest son, they don't change. One of my two best friends, was a kid I helped to protect from that mess, as best I could. I don't care how much time he spends in prison, they took something from me more valuable, than platinum, gold, even the rarest of jewels, my childhood. When it is taken, you don't get it back, and I have spent much effort in my lifetime healing from that. People that try and give a psychological or analytical perspective of evil; are wasting their time. I have looked into the eyes of it many times, it is not a fanciful concept, or abnormal psychology, it is all too real. That is how the world greeted me, is it any wonder that I despise a great deal of it? It is not sending me out of it any better. I think of all the lives that were so badly damaged or destroyed in that place. Combat in the army by comparison was a card game of Uno or Tiddlywinks. At least then, I had 16 heavily armed Rangers that had my back, that child was all alone.. |
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I'm so sorry for the trauma you (and other children) endured. Have you thought of EFT tapping or EMDR therapy? |
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I have talked to two qualified therapists here that are certified to do EMDR and they don't even want me in the same zip code as them. I had a heat stroke back in my army days and it led to me developing a grand mal seizure disorder. None of my doctors have recommended EFT tapping. They did however recommend ketamine therapy. I had that done, and don't remember a bit of it. I exited that mess in 1989, got a Bachelors in physics and then joined the army. I have had time to work on it, and have not been idle in that. There are parts that still want to hang on, and being combat deployed in the army just made it worse I think. I will ask Dr. Xanax, Master of the Comatose State, my psychiatrist about it. Thank you, those people destroyed so many lives, Six of the people I grew up with have all committed suicide. It is so senseless, and someone that would do a child in the way we were treated, they are not humans, they are monsters.
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Poohbah
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I am so sorry... it so awful... I have no words...
My heart goes out to you... I hope something like tapping can help you. Also, have you ever thought about doing tai-chi and qigong? |
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