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No, I’m not okay.
“Sometimes I think tolerance can be void of compassion and sometimes we can forget that in the end we’re all only human.” This is for everyone suffering from any mental disorder. Because I believe if...
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The Broken Road of Recovery.
After I wrote “I’m not okay,” I got messages and comments from many of you who are fighting the same battles. So for anyone’s who’s struggling, I want to tell you once more that you’re not alone and...
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The journey so far. (recovery and healing)
Looking back on my recovery so far. It only takes one mistake to destroy Everything-Shorty Hoffman It’s strange for to say, that I think I’m doing okay these days. I still have bad days and occasional...
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Leaving the gaslight on. (The journey to heal)
“It is not okay for someone you like to treat you poorly and then pretend it didn’t happen, making you question your own grasp on reality. This dynamic is called gaslighting. It’s a common tactic of...
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I’m still here, a continued C-PTSD journey to recovery.
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he...
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Let me just let go, let me just stop trying, you don’t know what it’s like.
Many complex trauma survivors walk away from their religious beliefs. For example, to believe in a good and loving God who allows suffering and heinous abuse to occur can feel like the ultimate...
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You ask how I’m doing, I say I’m doing just fine, but it’s a lie.
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up...
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You don’t define me.
The first time I attempted suicide I was eighteen years old and I had just graduated High School. I should have been looking forward to the future, getting a job, working, continuing my education and...
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You don’t define me. Ch1
No one has the right to just abandon their child, because no matter what happens, that or those kids will always blame themselves, will always feel broken. My mother was not the greatest; she was a...
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You don’t define me. Ch. 2
“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” – Dave Pelzer, A Child Called “It” One of the worse things I learned about myself is that I’m an...
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