Survivor Psalm
I have been victimized.
I was in a fight that was
not a fair fight.
I did not ask for the fight.
I lost.
There is no shame in losing
such fights.
I have reached the stage of
survivor and am no longer a
slave of victim status.
I look back with sadness
rather than hate.
I look forward with hope
rather than despair.
I may never forget, [...]
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Many psychiatric consumer/survivors have experienced trauma at some point in their lives. Whether it was an abusive family, inhumane psychiatric inpatient treatment, witnessing a suicide, being raped, or some other horrific event, many of us are intimately acquainted with the long-term effects of trauma.I have had bipolar disorder for years. First diagnosed in 1999 at [...]
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