As a child sex abuse survivor and advocate, I find it grotesque the @NewYorker gave a self admitted child abuser (in his own emails) national platform to belittle his victim as such. When you behave as such as a national platform you send a message to EVERY VICTIM.
Being a child of an alcoholic framed my internal dialogue on how I wasn’t enough for him to change, & his taking his own life compounded that self doubt. All I can do in this point if my life is take control, & love myself as I am. Flawed & all. #mentalhealth#suicide#alcohol
It’s been years since I embraced my natural hair. Long ago I changed it because it constantly reminded me of looking like my dad. W/ the anniversary of his suicide, I’ve been doing substantial work on the impact of his diagnosis over the years & impact of his presence or absence.
And as your daughter I wasn’t enough to keep you on this earth. Grief has been a rotation of anger, sadness, and silence. But today, I am enough to give myself grace and space to fight for my future.
To acknowledge this weeks build up to the anniversary of my fathers suicide, I was angry when you died. I haven’t spoken much on your death, I started therapy again and brought up the anniversary. No matter your illnesses, I was robbed of my dad.
I’ve felt a constant need to justify my grief. The silence and lack of information on your death, the why, will always haunt me. The anger creeps in like one last sword in the back that I wasn’t enough for you to get sober, I wasn’t enough for you to take your meds,
An emotionally immature partner will shut you down.
To avoid their temper or high reactivity, you don’t say anything.
You walk on eggshells betraying yourself in the process.
A relationship that silences you is a form of emotional abuse.
Choose yourself.
@terra_newell It’s hard to fit this in a tweet but I think it depends. I think what should be accessible is things that could potentially help further the case. If a case is solved, then only what the family would like in public domain. Minor/adult presumed alive/deceased all matters as well
In the midst of healing sometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of shrinking into the mold they want you to be. This time, I’m not shrinking. I’m taking the space necessary.
You can choke 🖤
Let’s keep @Smoh1968’s faith in people going by continuing to share his nephew Aaron Davidson’s flyer across social media. All it takes is one person to solve a case. Time is critical — Aaron needs medical attention. Do you know someone who lives or works in downtown LA? Send this flyer their way. Not local? That’s okay, share it anyway with #FindAaronDavidson #LosAngeles #DTLA #LA #missing #missingperson
It's very common for trauma survivors, in the course of recovery, to become FIERCELY protective of OTHER survivors.
We know what it's like to be abandoned, & we often make it our mission to never let another survivor feel alone if we can help it-- whether we know them or not.
If you care about Alicia, please don't show up at her home. Give this investigation some room to actually happen. Her safety is more important than our curiosity or your content.
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