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    Closing the Book on Gaslighting: On Learning My Psychiatrist of 20 Years Lost His Medical Licence
    davikath8
    • Jun 15
    • 2 min

    Closing the Book on Gaslighting: On Learning My Psychiatrist of 20 Years Lost His Medical Licence

    I shall close the long and gruesome history of gaslighting in my life with the following fact: my psychiatrist of almost 20 years lost...
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    The Writer on Self-Creation
    davikath8
    • May 22
    • 2 min

    The Writer on Self-Creation

    Not allowed to speak my thoughts or show my feelings, I was driven by my family of origin into art. More like, taken, tied, threatened,...
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    On Escaping the Land of Delusion
    davikath8
    • May 12
    • 1 min

    On Escaping the Land of Delusion

    I have broken the family contract. My mother enforced it: we (mother and three daughters) were never to acknowledge or object to my...
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    I'm Still Here
    davikath8
    • May 6
    • 1 min

    I'm Still Here

    Whenever I doubt myself, the continuity of my mind and my body, all I need to do is dance, turning and winding and bending and...
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    Underrated Superpowers: Listening and Watching
    davikath8
    • Mar 24
    • 1 min

    Underrated Superpowers: Listening and Watching

    If the abusers and alcoholics in my life sentenced me to silence, then in silence I learned and became acute. Who knew listening and...
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    The Artful Beast
    davikath8
    • Mar 5
    • 2 min

    The Artful Beast

    I think too much about goodness. Like any child I was taught that being good was ideal, “good” was what you should aspire too, “good” was...
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    Continuing the Dance
    davikath8
    • Feb 3
    • 1 min

    Continuing the Dance

    I keep waiting to be tried for my crimes against humanity. What crimes, you might ask? (I ask myself as well, in constant evaluation of...
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    Healing from Psychiatry's Excesses
    davikath8
    • Dec 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Healing from Psychiatry's Excesses

    Because I was determined to live fully and deeply, I weaned myself off psychiatric drugs. The suffering was intense but worthwhile....
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    Knowing When to Walk Away
    davikath8
    • Dec 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Knowing When to Walk Away

    Having recently cut all ties with my family of origin, I have moved from anger, shock, and loss to feelings of freedom, joy, and release....
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    It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
    davikath8
    • Nov 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

    My parents’ training of me started early and was original in its cruelty. Christmas day, 1975, when I was five years old, I cried because...
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    My Only Judge, My Heart
    davikath8
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    My Only Judge, My Heart

    I have told my story, read and reread it, edited and proofed it, polished and published it. So goodbye to all that. I slam the door on...
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    Gift from a Promising Young Woman
    davikath8
    • Sep 25, 2021
    • 1 min

    Gift from a Promising Young Woman

    The film, Promising Young Woman, by Emerald Fennell, gives all traumatized people, particularly women, an incredible gift: it does the...
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    The Single Lesson of Talk Therapy
    davikath8
    • May 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Single Lesson of Talk Therapy

    The single lesson of decades of talk therapy was communicated to my husband by a naked, elder colleague in the close quarters of a men’s...
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    Assertive Bill of Rights
    davikath8
    • Apr 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Assertive Bill of Rights

    Quoted from “The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing from Emotional Abuse” by Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC, Rockridge Press, 2020 Adapted...
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    What Not To Ignore
    davikath8
    • Mar 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    What Not To Ignore

    It would have helped if a single person had come forward to defend me or at least validate my perceptions of reality. Instead I had the...
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    Modern Gaslighting
    davikath8
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    Modern Gaslighting

    Unlike the character played by Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 film, Gaslight, I had nothing valuable to motivate my father to undermine me:...
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    Crimes That Are Not Illegal
    davikath8
    • Mar 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Crimes That Are Not Illegal

    If my parents had left bruises, I would, even as a 10-year-old, have found my way to the Auburn Police Station and testified against...
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    What Is Emotional Abuse
    davikath8
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 3 min

    What Is Emotional Abuse

    Source: Canadian Women’s Foundation https://canadianwomen.org/blog/signs-of-emotional-abuse/ According to the Canadian Department of...
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    How I Came to Voice
    davikath8
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    How I Came to Voice

    I went to college unsure of myself. I had been driven underground by my own family, told again and again I was wrong, ugly, and stupid,...
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    Emerging As a Storyteller
    davikath8
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Emerging As a Storyteller

    The truth: some of us don’t survive. When I consider what I have suffered at the hands of the ignorant, the brutal, or the narcissistic,...
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