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
- 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 22, 2022
- 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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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
- May 6, 2022
- 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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davikath8
- Mar 24, 2022
- 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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davikath8
- Mar 5, 2022
- 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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davikath8
- Feb 15, 2022
- 1 min
Not Today Death
Hold off, Death, I say, Not for me today, Not for the immediate future. I walk away healthy from the cancer clinic. I walk away healthy...
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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 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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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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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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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
- May 8, 2021
- 1 min
To the Women Whose Unofficial Job Is Love
There are women who taught me how to live. How to listen to myself and others. How to ask questions and stay curious. How to explore. How...
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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 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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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 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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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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