Hey guys,
well I am free!!!!
As usual I went to Survivors support group on Tuesday and this has led to this post.
First of all, I am
writing this to all survivors, IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!! How I know that
sometimes that this is hard to believe, and in a way I am being a
complete hypocrite by writing that as personally I feel that it is my
fault that my life happened, and this is why I need the punishment
that I want to talk about in this post.
I believe completely
that I am Evil and born that way, and this is why my dad did what he
did, he was trying to cure me, and save people around me and society
in general. However if I look at it intellectually and as if
the story was someone elses, I can see how he used his power, Job (vicar), and grooming to keep the person quiet and to pass blame
onto them rather than himself. What he did was WRONG, a child (or
even an adult) is never to blame, those that a*use that power are. I
will (or more likely we will) be taking it from this position rather
than my emotional, core belief system to my own history!
I
punish myself in so many ways, I believe that I need this punishment
as it is my fault and that I deserve all the punishment in the world.
I turn my anger inwards and hurt myself in order of a way of coping
with the past (and present, the physical stuff may not be going on,
but they are still in my head, repeating all this stuff.
A
definition of Self Punishment can be found here. But is pretty self
explanatory and from people that I know I feel that it is a common
feature in those that have experienced a*use. This is because the
perpetrator will either blame the victim or be so nice that someone
may feel that they saught it out (there may be other reasons that I
have not thought of) and so feel that they deserve to punish
themselves rather than the people who are really to blame, this is
not just for those who have been se*ually a*used by any type!
The
way that people can punish themselves is endless, and I don't really
want to go into them, as I don't want to give people new ideas, but
need to focus on the fact that a)Anger is a natural and OK emotion (I
hate writing that as seems so alien to me!!) but it needs to
be aimed at the person that is to blame, and not at yourself. Obviously
I am not talking about if someone, anyone did something wrong and
then the anger can be justified, but that is the exact word that
needs to come out of this, ANGER IS JUSTIFIABLE, BUT A*USE IS NOT THE
SURVIVORS FAULT, THE JUSTIFIED ANGER SHOULD BE AIMED AT THE
PERSON/PEOPLE WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE! I am not giving anyone permission
to go and be aggressive or even violent towards anyone (including
themselves) but as I said its OK to be angry for your innocence to be
snatched away!!!!
Right,
back to myself. I have repeatedly said that it is my fault, and
therefore I need to punish myself for what I have done wrong (being
born evil/disclosure and everything that followed etc etc) but by
thinking this way, and acting in this way (whether it through the
self harm that I used to do or the severely controlling my eating,
putting myself into dangerous positions etc) I can remain in control
in a situation that I am repeatedly told was not in my control
(intellectually how can someone who can barely talk be responsible to
anything To Be Honest!!!). Also I am absolutely terrified of emotions
(rather be shutdown and numb) especially anger, as scared of its
power
Good
ideas for coping with the need for self punishment can be found
here.
Sorry
this is so disjointed and not up to much tonight, but I am extremely
switchy which is making it difficult.
Till
next time guys,
Lou and Us.