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‘I am broken inside’: Revisiting lessons from Jiah Khan’s death and suicide note
“All I want now is to go to sleep and never wake up again. I am nothing.” ‘I am broken inside’: Revisiting lessons from Jiah Khan’s death and suicide note Rachel Hercman Aug 25, 2015 at 12:09 pm Jiah Khan’s suicide is now in news again because of Sooraj’s impending movie release. Whether it is a genuine attempt to clear the air or just a PR act, we do not know. However, when we remember the young, beautiful, famous actress deciding she had no other solution than to take her own life, it is a testament to the amount of emotional pain she must have been experiencing. Her suicide note…
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Stacey Hyde’s story is a shocking insight into how the law treats young, abused women
To put Hyde, who suffered from a number of chronic mental health problems – including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, and suicidal tendencies – through a second trial, when she had already served five years in prison, is nothing short of barbaric. Stacey Hyde’s story is a shocking insight into how the law treats young, abused women Julie Bindel When Emma Humphreys was acquitted of murder by the court of appeal in July 1995, it marked a change in the law in cases of abused women who kill violent men. Emma had stabbed Trevor Armitage, her violent boyfriend/pimp after he threatened her with a “gang bang”, and…
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How the Military Retaliates Against Sexual Assault Victims
The Air Force called her in for a re-evaluation, determining that she had a borderline personality disorder, court documents show — a common diagnosis for military sexual assault victims — and downgraded her disability rating to 30 percent, which would affect the amount of benefits she could receive. How the Military Retaliates Against Sexual Assault Victims May 18, 2015, 6:33 pm ET by Sarah Childress Jessica Hinves didn’t want to report her rape. A young airman who’d grown up in a military family, Hinves was afraid of jeopardizing her career. She didn’t think anyone would believe that a colleague had assaulted her. “I didn’t believe it, until it happened to…
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Borderline Personality Disorder in Strippers/Exotic Dancers?
A study by the director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology program at the University of Pennsylvania found 55 percent of strippers are diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and 60 percent experience depression. Bon: The above quote is from an article about strippers/exotic dancers… BEYOND THE POLE: The hidden world of exotic dancers Andrew Paxton | Oct 02, 2014 By JAMIE VERWYS “Looking to round up the finest 18 and over girls in Tucson, cash nightly.” Advertisements promising college women wads of cash for flashing serious skin aren’t hard to find. The call for exotic dancers can be found by picking up a copy of Tucson Weekly or Pima Community…
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Emotional Independence
When new members “wash up on the shores” of the ATSTP list, they are confused, angry, helpless and exhausted. One thing I also noticed is that new members are emotionally entangled with their loved ones with BPD. Sometimes when people speak of “boundaries,” they use the phrase “where you end and I begin.” The word boundary has many meanings, and have talked about effective boundaries a lot on this blog. Yet, this idea of “where you stop and I begin” is very important when you’re entangled in another person’s emotions. A Non-BPD must learn to heal, to unpack emotional baggage, to acquire the emotional skills to help to detangle the…
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Interesting Article about Emotional Abuse and Victim Identity
Here’s an interesting article about Victim Identity and Emotional Abuse…. The original is here. The Line between Victims and AbusersSteven StosnyCreated May 15 2009 – 6:52am Victim identity is focus on damages suffered at the hands of other people. The desire to be identified as a victim creates a sense of entitlement and a motive to devalue anyone who does not offer special recognition and validation of victim status or compensation for it. In our Age of Entitlement, it is often difficult for friends and therapists to detect abuse in intimate relationships and to discern who the primary abuser is. This is especially hard in cases of emotional abuse, with…