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- Ethnographic Case Narrative: Early Menopause, Chronic Trauma, and Institutional Accountability
- The Mental Toll of Childhood Trauma Across Life Stages
- When Records Rewrite Reality: How False Narratives in Social Care Shape a Survivor’s Life
- Foster Care Displacement: Criminalization, Credibility, and hidden agenda.
- Systemic Obstruction: How UK Social Services Undermine Statutory Rights and Accountability
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Ethnographic Case Narrative: Early Menopause, Chronic Trauma, and Institutional Accountability
This narrative is written not as an outsider analysing policy, but as someone who lived inside the contradictions, denials, and harms of state care. What follows is both lived experience and embodied data: an ethnography in which my body is … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, ethnographic study trauma, foster care, healing, health, historic abuse, mental-health, ptsd, social services, Trauma
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The Mental Toll of Childhood Trauma Across Life Stages
Understanding the psychological impact of trauma requires both evidence and lived truth. This piece blends academic research with my personal journey through childhood trauma, showing how early experiences shape the body, mind, and identity over time. By placing theory alongside … Continue reading
When Records Rewrite Reality: How False Narratives in Social Care Shape a Survivor’s Life
Decades after leaving foster care, I discovered that my social care files contained false and damaging narratives — ones that followed me into adulthood, shaped how professionals treated me, and nearly silenced my truth. This is how official records can … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, child abuse, False narratives in social care, family, healing, historic abuse, mental-health, ptsd, social services, Trauma
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Systemic Obstruction: How UK Social Services Undermine Statutory Rights and Accountability
Introduction The United Kingdom’s social care system operates under a framework designed to protect children and ensure transparency. Yet for many care-experienced people like me, the reality is one of systematic obstruction and institutional self-protection. Statutory mechanisms such as the … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, family, healing, historic abuse, law, mental-health, news, politics, social services, Systemic failure, systemic obstruction, Trauma
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Professional detachment: When Disclosures Are Managed And Silenced.
(Trigger Warning: Mentions of child abuse, institutional neglect, and systemic failure.) Introduction The United Kingdom presents itself as a civilized nation — reasonable, fair, and humane.But anyone who has lived within its care systems knows that the image doesn’t match … Continue reading
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The Hidden Cost of Survival: How Trauma Becomes a Financial Burden for Care Survivors
Trigger Warning: Mentions of trauma, abuse, and systemic neglect.Written from lived experience. The Price of Healing For children who grow up in state care, the trauma doesn’t end when the placement ends. The system’s failures echo through adulthood — in … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, CPTSD, foster care, healing, historic abuse, mental-health, ptsd, social services, therapy, Trauma, UK
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The Inheritance of Files: How the State Turned Guardianship into Surveillance
Trigger Warning: Mentions of state care, child abuse, and surveillance of care-experienced parents.Written from lived experience. A Child of the Court I became a ward of court at eight years old. From that moment, the state claimed legal guardianship over … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, England, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, life, mental-health, parenting, social services, Trauma, UK
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When Trauma Meets Bureaucracy: Living with CPTSD in a System That Doesn’t Understand It
There is something uniquely exhausting about living with Complex PTSD, not just the symptoms themselves, but the constant negotiation with systems that don’t understand them. The very institutions that claim to protect and support people with disabilities or trauma-related conditions, … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, CPTSD, DWP, foster care, healing, historic abuse, mental-health, ptsd, social services, Systemic failure, Trauma
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The Barriers of Red Tape: How Systems Silence Survivors
One of the most damaging parts of surviving abuse is not only what was done to you. it’s what follows when you try to tell the truth. The act of speaking out requires courage. Seeking justice, understanding, or even basic … Continue reading
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Local Authority Failures, and Statutory Obligations
I want to talk about statutory obligation because during my time in care, there were many failures. I tried multiple times to make statutory complaints about my care while in childhood, and as an adult. Every single time I was … Continue reading
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