Having long been gaslighted by authority figures, I tend to gaslight myself, but I am done. Believing myself is healing, is health.

A survivor of multiple cancers reflects on her relationship with panic, how PTSD has shaped her life and her character.

A survivor of cancer and childhood abuse learns she is not entirely free of her troubled past

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....

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...

Unlike the character played by Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 film, Gaslight, I had nothing valuable to motivate my father to undermine me:...

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...