What is the best way to overcome abuse and trauma?
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Re: What is the best way to overcome abuse and trauma?
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So kind of you to share a link on seeking professional (www.helpguide.org), you have done well. I agree to a large extent with you that writing about abusive situations might not be difficult for an author. A writer might experience a burst of inspiration and vividly describe abusive situations that might be 100% fiction. A writer could also have personally experienced such and decide to share as a therapeutic measure or to ensure the prevention, this situations might also be easy for the said writer to put to paper.BDTheresa wrote: ↑02 Apr 2018, 03:36 Natalie fighting back mistreatment and finding a refuge in art is one way to overcome abuse and trauma. The alcoholic father is not the only one responsible in the family equation. The mother is equally responsible. Instead of letting her eldest child raise up to the challenge of protecting her and her siblings, the mother should have done that instead. It's her responsibility as a mother to protect her children. The best way to respond to abuse and other traumatic experience is to seek professional help or check out https://www.helpguide.org. I don't think it's difficult for a writer to describe abusive situations if the writer follows the right method which are : (1) experience. If the writer doesn't have experience then the writer should seek out experience from those who overcame their abuse and trauma. No knowledge is small. (2) Seek out understanding from the professional. Those who study these kinds of things (Psychologist).
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You did the right thing by getting away with your kids. The kids also suffer psychologically just like the victim more so if it involves their parents. Good luck!Mjgarrison wrote: ↑02 Apr 2018, 23:20 I feel like the best way to overcome abuse is to get away from and learn the signs so you can stay away from it. I was badly abused by my ex-husband and I didn't start to heal until I took myself and my kids far away from the situation. It still took about 10 years to forgive my abuser and start to really trust people in my life again.
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It is hard to put into words how wonderful of an author Toni Morrison is. The way she portrayed the emotions and thought process of the mother in Beloved was so unique and heart wrenching. It absolutely changed my thoughts on the lengths people will go to in order avoid abuse and major hardships. I know her story was fiction, but I could easily see this being a real human reaction.cristinaro wrote: ↑02 Apr 2018, 05:33 I agree with most of the things you mentioned. I have only one small remark regarding the difficulty of describing abusive situations. I have in mind Toni Morrison's novels Beloved and The Bluest Eye. In Beloved, a mother prefers killing her child for fear of sharing her fate as a slave whereas in The Bluest Eye, a girl is abused and finally raped by her alcoholic father. I watched a video with an interview taken to Toni Morrison about Beloved . What she says is that it was incredibly hard to find the language to describe the story of a mother who was so desperate as to kill her child and that precise moment is so buried in the text that you have problems finding it. For me, Toni Morrison is an incredible writer and she did find the words to touch anyone to tears.
This comparison of the reactions of abuse is an interesting take from what I have read so far about Ironbark Hill. It continues to increase my interest in this book and all that it has to offer.
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