Posted by daisym on January 10, 2006, at 16:02:40
In reply to {sigh} I don't want to have been traumatized!, posted by Racer on January 10, 2006, at 14:41:30
Makes sense to me. I've said often that I don't want to be one of those sign carrying "survivors" who has defined herself by the abuse.
No disrespect intended.
I don't want it to define me. I HATE pity for it. And I feel a protective impulse for the abuser to say, "it wasn't that bad. I should be over it." It makes me wince when my therapist says something along the lines of what yours said.
I refuse the label survivor. I don't want to be a victim. So what am I?
Actually, I don't mind traumatized as much as I mind abused. Trauma feels like something that will heal. Abuse sounds so powerless. Funny thing about semantics, isn't it?
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