On Life After Abuse and Neglect & Becoming a Wild Thing

The Friday Edition | No. 45

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On Life After Abuse & Neglect and Becoming a Wild Thing

I often find myself questioning the purpose and meaning of life after enduring childhood abuse and neglect, and the unrelenting cycles of trauma that follow. Each day feels like a struggle to exist among the living – among those who can’t grasp the dark depths of hell that come with complex trauma (CPTSD). It’s an exhausting maze, a constant mind game, trying to navigate life as a shattered soul, feeling foreign and alien in a human body among others who seem whole.