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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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Tagged abuse, abuse-in-foster-care, foster care, fostering-legislation, healing, local-authority-failures, looked-after-children, mental-health, news, Sexual abuse, Silencing, Social Services Statutory complaints, social-services-failures, Statutory Complaints Abuse in Foster Care, statutory-complaints-in-foster-care, statutory-obligations-to-abused-foster-children, UK Legislation in Abuse Cases
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Foster Placement 6 *trigger warning*
Please read placement number 6 before reading placement 6 *trigger warning*. this post is a part two, and has a part one. As I stated in part one, the foster mother was fake, manipulative and somewhat sadistic in her mannerisms. … Continue reading
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Placement Number 6
The family who lived in placement number 6, were foster parents whom had four biological sons. This family fostered up to four girls at a time, mainly from biracial backgrounds. The foster children slept on bunk beds in one room … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, family, foster care, healing, life, mental-health, trauma-experience, writing
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Foster Care Part 2 *trigger warning*
Foster family number 3 In 1991, I was placed with a black family who were personal friends with placement number 2. The new family lived in the same area, a few streets away from foster family number 2. Within four … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, childhood abuse, CSA, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, Mental Health, mental-health, social work, Trauma
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Foster Care *Trigger Warning*
I was born in Bristol City, England UK in 1979, after my parents relocated to Bristol in the early 1970s. Most of my childhood was spent growing up during the 1980s and 90s. Bristol has a rich complex history, and … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, child abuse, foster care, mental-health, Neglect, Trauma
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CSA: From a legal perspective.
To be clear from the start. When looking at your experience from a legal perspective, the therapeutic side does not really come into it. Legal and therapy are too different entities that have too different jobs to do. In blunt … Continue reading
Are Recovered Memories Real?
What a title, and what a war recovered memories saga had on society, the courts and world. When I first learned about recovered memories, it was the only thing that explained what I had gone through. For me, every little … Continue reading
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Tagged betrayal, healing, Memory, mental-health, relationships, Trauma
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BOOK – Child Sexual Abuse in Protective Custody: From a Lived Perspective.
I am writing a book based on my own lived experience within the Bristol City Care system. It is a book broken down into subsections and parts. That include Life Circumstance, Police, Courts & Legislation, Mental Health & Well-Being, and … Continue reading
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