by johannasr2 | Nov 28, 2025 | Clarity, Communication, Family, Relationships, Response to Trauma
Again, I’ve been watching this behavior all of my life and want to give good examples to help people identify when gaslighting is happening in their life. Let’s say you have a happy couple and they have a couple of children together. The wife is constantly complaining...
by johannasr2 | Nov 20, 2025 | Addiction, Change, Childhood Abuse, Family, Parenting, Parenting Adults
Recently, my son sent his daughter a meme that showed a daughter being sad because her addict dad died while and when she was still angry with him for abandoning her. This is a key feature of addiction; children always feel abandoned by the addict parent and try to...
by johannasr2 | Mar 15, 2025 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Feelings, Incest, Response to Trauma
When you are the molester, and the abuser, this is what is true about you, here are the things that must be true in order for you to be the perpetrator: You want power. The reason for your power absolutism is that you can say to your victim, “I don’t care what you...
by johannasr2 | Feb 18, 2025 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Mental Illness, Poverty
What American Poverty is and is...
by johannasr2 | Feb 16, 2025 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Mental Illness, Poverty, Response to Trauma
Which is nothing like African poverty or Russian poverty, it is not to be compared with other countries. This document is about American poverty only. “I was poor” is a refrain that I hear a lot from kids, from young people and definitely from anyone born in the 80s...
by johannasr2 | Nov 10, 2024 | Fibromyalgia, Health Care, Psychology, Response to Trauma
Birate Doctoral by Wikimedia Commons This morning I watched a show about Israel’s healthcare system having found (after much experimentation) an effective treatment for TBI (traumatic brain injury)and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The show demonstrated how a...
