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Is THIS Abuse? Yes or No?

By Kathy Broady MSW 27 Comments

Many times I get asked what abuse is. I understand this question, and the need for that question because many of the dissociative survivors who I speak with grew up in such chronically abusive homes that abuse was normal.   Normal is just normal to them.  What I would define as abuse was their norm, their everyday, their usual, their expected.  And once abuse is “just how it is”, it becomes tricky and confusing to … [Read more...]

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