Tag Archives: Trauma

Fostering for Purpose Vs Financial Gain.

Posted on October 11, 2025 by societyshiddensecret

Fostering is a good will job, that requires skill, time and a lot of energy. Good foster parents deserve financial support and help when fostering children. Children are expensive, and giving up your life to give someone else a fairer … Continue reading →

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Foster Placement 6 *trigger warning*

Posted on October 9, 2025 by societyshiddensecret

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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Foster Care Part 2 *trigger warning*

Posted on April 30, 2025 by societyshiddensecret

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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Foster Care *Trigger Warning*

Posted on March 31, 2025 by societyshiddensecret

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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Utilizing Recovered Memories

Posted on February 24, 2025 by societyshiddensecret

I thought I would post more about my experience of memory recovery, and how it worked for me. First I will touch on the fact that repression of memories doesn’t happen on its own. It happens because care givers around … Continue reading →

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Are Recovered Memories Real?

Posted on January 9, 2025 by societyshiddensecret

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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BOOK – Child Sexual Abuse in Protective Custody: From a Lived Perspective.

Posted on December 29, 2024 by societyshiddensecret

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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Recovering Repressed Memories: A Survivor’s Journey Through Fragmented Trauma and Systemic Neglect

Posted on October 27, 2024 by societyshiddensecret

Recovering repressed traumatic memories is not a simple act of remembering — it is an unravelling of pain, confusion, and truth. From the perspective of a survivor of child sexual abuse in care, this piece explores the lived experience of … Continue reading →

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Fragmented, recovered and repressed memories

Posted on October 24, 2024 by societyshiddensecret

Living with a fragmented memory will impact each of us in our own way. We all live unique lives and experiences. These make our memories and fragmented memories unique to us as individuals. In my lived experience, my fragmented memory … Continue reading →

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