Lisa Adams

Victim/survivor #coercivecontrol, #DFV. Living with #CPTSD, #chronicpain. #Feminist. #VoteALP #SeeWhatYouMadeMeDo

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@denning_kate @Lynny_Pinnie He is a lawyer... enough said.

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@mike_salter @DrJessTaylor @DrWilliams Don’t discount my experience please Dr Taylor. Therapy & meds saved my life. Developmental trauma experts (Van Der Kolk, Herman, Janina Fisher, Bruce Perry, Stephen Porges etc) have worked tirelessly to empirically validate experiences like mine.

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@mike_salter @DrJessTaylor @DrWilliams Exactly. I have #cptsd resulting from decade long #CoerciveControl & #dfv from age 13. Knowing this abuse impacted my neurodevelopment - resulting in a myriad of symptoms (emotional dysregulation, hypervigilance, sucidality, chronic anxiety, eating disorder etc) is validating.

[Aysha Mubeen @AMubeen_Path]

My fingers tremble as I type this..as of today COVID has become a personal tragedy..I have lost both my parents in a matter of 15 days in India. My precious, beautiful mummy and papa who made me who I am, have left me forever. Life will never be the same 💔

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@DrDemography Make a new family Liz, that’s what I’m trying to do. Friends can love you better than your bio family ever could. You have a huge abandonment wound, being vulnerable & rejected is agonising for us, more so than most. Protect yourself from that hurt from them anymore 🤗

[Tanya Plibersek @tanya_plibersek]

Let’s be clear, the Liberals are using their eighth Budget to fake they care about Australian women when they’ve ignored them in the last seven. A thread.

#Budget21

[Alexa @KittyAbsurd]

We gotta fight back against the LNP propaganda of 'better economic managers' so here are some charts & sources to show anyone who believes that nonsense from Murdoch/Fairfax.

Labor - better economy, better wages, lower taxes.

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@YvesRees @jessradio Why bother with empirical research when we have an evangelist at the helm? God knows best. #ScottyTheChosenOne

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@jessradio It’s the type of emotional intelligence that should be taught in schools. Role playing conflict resolution, being vulnerable etc., could be very beneficial. My decade of coercive control & dfv (from age of 13) was so destructive I’ve been single ever since (I’m 42 now).

[Jess Hill @jessradio]

Fantastic article - how to learn how to argue *in a healthy way* after you’ve been subjected to abuse in previous relationships.

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

Absolutely! Where’s the intensive support urgently required for AFTER you leave? #coercivecontrol & #DFV leave indelible wounds on women & children, resulting in intergenerational trauma. 20 yrs on I have #cptsd resulting in crippling anxiety, social isolation & chronic mistrust

[Annon Survivor @AnnonSurvivor]

Another token announcement?

It still is not enough.

And where is funding for trauma?

Are we 'moving forward' in women's Safety, but still forgetting those who already have significant trauma?

#auspol
#mentalhealth
#trauma
https://t.co/rPPM3eE33u

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@ColeenMacK_AUS It’s the male breadwinner culture that perpetuates gender stereotypes, power imbalances, pay gaps & social inequality. The festering breeding ground for #DVF #coercivecontrol & another generation of unchallenged patriarchy.

[Coleen MacKinnon (she/her) @ColeenMacK_AUS]

So why is #childcare considered a women’s issue in AUS when women AND men are parents? And why is our highly gendered, globally lagging #ParentalLeave not part of #Budget2021? Until women and men have equal access to leave, the country’s male breadwinner culture will persist.

[Shane Bazzi @shanebazzi]

I can’t stomach hearing the government pretending to care about mental health. They have forced me and many other people into poverty, cut off my JobSeeker payments completely and a cabinet minister who tortured refugees is suing me for defamation, leaving me suicidal #budget2021

[Tarang / तरंग (he/him) @tarang_chawla]

I find the way key government figures talk about "spending on women" as though women are the only beneficiaries of such economic measures to be cringeworthy and insulting. It's as though they don't actually value women unless it's politically beneficial.

#AusPol #Budget21

[PRGuy @PRGuy17]

Australia's gone backwards under the Liberals. It will take us many years to recover. Where we should be booming, we're going broke. Where we should be leading, we're not even following. Where we were once great, we're becoming a joke. We must change our government. #Budget2021

[Lisa Adams @LisaInRecovery]

@cathywilcox1 @smh @theage That would require immense self reflection, acknowledgement & systemic change. Looking at how gov, education, medical, & judicial systems are patriarchal, & perpetuate sexism, gender norms, pay gaps, racism, & social inequality. Not gonna happen by this gov, ever.