A New Chapter
I start college on Monday. So excited, like a giddy school girl. I just hope my patience for myself and the 4 subjects I'm studying matches this excitement.
~ The Silencing Of An Abused Voice ~
When you go through life feeling almost everything that happens around you, it can be very difficult to separate your heart from your mind and what you feel from what you know. Most thoughts are rooted in emotions when you feel so much. Your perception of the world and how it views you is influenced by your own self-worth. Perhaps over feeling everything has to do with being abused~ At least for me. Sexually, mentally and physically~ All forms of abuse can eat away at the core of self worth and become so overwhelming that in time it's all one can do to not pick everything apart-even compliments-for some hidden insult. It's exhausting, to say the least, and it can put a lot of distance between yourself and others. As if you aren't lonely enough in that dark and cold place, you become a victim of your own thoughts, doubts and worries. You feel shame for the abuse because in your heart, you wonder what you did to deserve it, to cause it. Your brain tells you that these...
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