Growing Out of Trauma and Into Health
Because my parents punished me every time I asserted myself, my nervous system continues to recoil every time I do so, even at the age of...
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davikath8
- Oct 13, 2022
- 2 min
On The Myth of Normal
While Gabor Mate in his new book, The Myth of Normal (https://drgabormate.com/), explicitly forgives parents who inflict their trauma on...
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davikath8
- Jun 15, 2022
- 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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davikath8
- May 12, 2022
- 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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davikath8
- Feb 3, 2022
- 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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davikath8
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
The Power of Unlikely Animals
If you have two hours available for some serious viewing, I highly recommend Jane Campion’s new masterpiece, “Power of the Dog.” While it...
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davikath8
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
Death Be Not Proud
Even before I confronted death at age 15, I had tastes, desires, and a temperament that did not fit. I danced, and sang, and immersed...
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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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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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davikath8
- Jun 15, 2021
- 1 min
Attention Indomitable Spirits
Every moment you allow them to occupy you, you are yielding, you are giving them a victory. I am a survivor only of personal history, of...
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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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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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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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