Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.
With a new baby to take care of, my mother felt stressed. She decided she wouldn't take care of all three of us, her boy, her girl, and her kitten. So she killed the kitten in front of me. Broke its neck and showed it to me, a four year old.
In my experience people who hurt animals may well hurt people, too.
Lilly.....one of these days i will join you on the glitter sub...if only to dig my toes into warm sand and nap with the sun on my face. I think my memory needed or wanted to be seen. I try to learn something from them when they pop up and asked to be listened to. Maybe I just needed to remember with an adult mind, a stronger mind with a different perspective. Anyway...when I pay attention to them they stop pestering me.
I have so many bad memories from childhood, but some of those times when he hurt the dogs are the hardest for me too. He was definitely not right in the head, my father. I think it's true that people who like to hurt animals also enjoy hurting people...especially children.
people like that are the reason i don't/won't/can't believe in a higher power. nobody should ever go through that, and i'm just really sorry that you did. :(
Anything that revolves around causing an animal pain other than the medical profession is intolerable to me emotionally...
So much so, I have to avoid any outside stimulation whatsoever...
I believe it is due to mistreatment and pain of the animals in my home when I was young...
Particularly, an animal cannot understand what is happening to it... It just knows it is being harmed...
I truly wish you well on your journey and hope for peace in your mind... Lila
I'm really sorry that dead pig story with your brother happened to you. But if it did, I'm glad there was a place you could talk it out, and in your doing so, you helped me, too.
Thank you for opening up, Cec, so I could, too. Hope it gets better. It's not something to do just anywhere, but every time I repeat telling my true but taboo stories like that in this safe place, it helps reduce the power of the story over me.