PTSD

The theory I proposed was that two types of individuals came forward because of the publicity: those who actually suffered abuse and those who wanted the cachet of being a survivor

I do not think it is my imagination when I observe women being among the harshest critics of Pfc. Jessica Lynch.

If only he hadn't hit me. Not just that day, but many times before that.

Every one of us would rather not have gone through the experience. I've reexamined a few incidents in my life and I've concluded that they did not make me a better person.

In those days, my high school years, my Catholic parents had arranged what amounted to a five day a week divorce.

At the beginning of 4th grade, my mother wondered who my teacher would be. "If it's Sister Annette again," I said, "I'm going to take out a gun and shoot her."

Becca, Red Water Lily and I fight to be ourselves in a world that thinks it knows our minds and can make better prescriptions for our happiness than the ones we know to soothe.

I hate it when some people go rolling out their "past" like a heavily retouched wallet photo. "Recovered memories" seem gruesomely unreal because they are unreal.