PTSD

THANK YOU, DAVID O. RUSSELL

You know how sometimes the very thing you need the most at a particular moment suddenly appears? It can come in many forms . . . a book, a prayer, a person, a film, a letter, an epiphany. Well, many m...

THE UNTOLD STORY OF MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT — from the New York Times

I read this story by Michael F. Matthews today and feel it’s important and that’s why I’m posting it here as a blog. It follows the topic of PTSD following sexual assault, the import...

SOME REACTIONS TO ISSUES RAISED BY MY PREVIOUS BLOG

I have been very moved by many of the things people have written as a result of my last blog, FOR MY MOTHER, so much so that I want to say a few more things about this horrific (and under-reported) is...

FOR MY MOTHER

My mother was sexually abused as a young girl, long before people knew the life-long damage it causes or that there are ways to heal the wounds–the worst of which are not what happens physically...